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And blowing the most recent Pynchon news out of the water, Penguin Random House announced today the October 7th publication of Shadow Ticket, Pynchon’s latest novel.

Only 384 pages, but after 12 years of silence the promise of someone named “Hicks McTaggart” wandering around interwar Hungary is enough for me.

“Sometimes it’s very hard to act on what you know in the face of what you thought you knew. Once you know you know it, you don’t have a choice.”

Joe Giardullo