Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Writer Devin Thomas O'Shea joins LR once again, this time to discuss Thomas Pynchon's new novel "Shadow Ticket."

Reviews mentioned:
“Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America” by Kathryn Schultz in The New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/shadow-ticket-thomas-pynchon-book-review

“Thomas Pynchon is Angry” by Richard Beck in The Yale Review
yalereview.org/article/richard-beck-thomas-pynchon

“Thomas Pynchon’s world of shadows” by William T. Vollmann in UnHerd
unherd.com/2025/10/thomas-pynchons-world-of-shadows