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Thomas Pynchon Wiki tw_pw_st https://shadowticket.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page MediaWiki 1.43.6 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Thomas Pynchon Wiki Thomas Pynchon Wiki talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Tim Main Page 0 1 1103 1055 2026-04-10T16:59:14Z WikiAdmin 1 1103 wikitext text/x-wiki [[Image:Shadow-Ticket_US-Cover.jpg|500px|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Shadow Ticket'' Wiki!'''</big> If you wish to contact us or suggest edits, [https://thomaspynchon.com/contact/ '''use this Contact page.'''] *'''Purchase ''Shadow Ticket''''': [https://amzn.to/46qJ8Ls '''Hardcover'''] [https://amzn.to/4noi6u1 Large Print Paperback] *[https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Shadow+Ticket&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_odkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Inherent+Vice&_osacat=0 '''Search EBay''' for ''Shadow Ticket''] *Check out some [[#Featured Articles|'''Featured Articles''']] *[[Songs_mentioned_in_Shadow_Ticket|'''Musicians and works of music''' mentioned in ''Shadow Ticket'']] *''Shadow Ticket'' is getting '''GREAT''' reviews. Check them out [[Shadow Ticket Reviews|here]]. * [https://www.allfreenovel.com/Book/Details/191147/Shadow-Ticket#PageList '''SEARCHABLE ''Shadow Ticket''] (through the first 108 pages)  This is the Wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Shadow Ticket''. Besides using the [[ST_Alpha_Nav|'''Alphabetical Index''']] and the [[Shadow_Ticket_-_Page_by_Page|'''page-by-page annotation''']], you can also take a look at [[Shadow Ticket cover analysis|''Shadow Ticket'' cover analyses]], read the [[Shadow Ticket Reviews|reviews]], or [[Shadow Ticket Title|entertain some theories on the source of the title]].  <div style="clear:both;"></div> ==How to Use this Wiki== There are two major ways to use this wiki. The first is the '''''Shadow Ticket'' Alphabetical Index''', used to keep track of the myriad characters, real and imagined, as well as events, arcana, and lots of other stuff. The second is the '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''', which allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner. Apart from those, it's up to you. {{ST_Alpha_Nav}}   ==Page by Page Annotations== {{Shadow Ticket PbP}} ==Featured Articles== [[File:Current-Affairs-Pynchon.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]'''"Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming," a ''Current Affairs'' article by Ana Gavrilovska, is excellent''' "The Great Depression of the ‘30s in ''Shadow Ticket'' and the post-Reagan “economic ax blades” of ''Vineland'' are converging in the political realities of the mid-2020s. Once again, we’re facing the prospect of major political and economic upheaval. Only our coming depression is fomented not by the collapse of industrial production, but technofascist surveillance-sponsored production, the looming bursting of the AI bubble, and the continued consolidation of everything under the sun into one global plutocratic dynasty. Toward the end of ''Shadow Ticket'', Pynchon describes the wind as “a theremin of uneasiness, sliding around a narrow band of notes, in which it’s said you may come to hear repeated melodies, themes and variations, which is when you know you’re going bughouse, with only a very short period of grace to try and escape before it no longer matters.” [https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-pynchon-saw-american-fascism-coming Full article »] [[File:Vollmann-article-cropped.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]'''This ''UnHerd'' review by the great William T. Vollmann is a must read, ...''' "His boss was a cards-to-his-chest type named Boynt Crosstown — and here I admit to having dropped that in as the merest excuse to revel right now in more of Pynchon’s christenings: Dr. Swampscott Vobe, Wisebroad’s Shoes, Connie McSpool, Glow Tripworth de Vasta, Cousin Begonia, 'child sensation Squeezita Thickly' — for this author’s longstanding genius there on that private swivel chair of the Department of Character Appellations matches long-gone Lord Dunsany’s for imaginary gods and cities. I cast my grin back upon Tyrone Slothrop, who was first printed in 1973, and wonder to what extent my delight in ''Shadow Ticket'' derives from nostalgia. For I’m getting decrepit, while Pynchon is even older, so which will come first, the old lion’s last roar, or my last read? Enriching the nostalgia is Pynchon’s lyrically sad and squalidly beautiful Milwaukee, a place to which I have no connection, and at a time before my parents were born, so why should I care about it? But I do, because it’s a shadow Milwaukee, all the more worth missing for being unreal. [https://unherd.com/2025/10/thomas-pynchons-world-of-shadows/ Full review »] [[File:Simpsons-Pynchon-NYT.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Illustration: Matt Groening for the ''New York Times'']]'''William Gibson, Lisa Simpson and More on Their Favorite Pinch of Pynchon''' by Tim Teeman, ''New York Times'' 10/18/25 "LISA: Dad, did you read “Gravity’s Rainbow” yet, the Thomas Pynchon masterpiece? He’s what I want to be when I grow up — a famous literary recluse. Just imagine being speculated about by the most consequential people in the world: English literature grad students. HOMER: Sweetie, I really wanted to read it. But you know I don’t like to read. My eyes get so tired going right, right, right, then, ugh … left. Plus from the title I thought “Gravity’s Rainbow” would be about Skittles. It didn’t seem to be, so I took a break about halfway through. LISA: You made it halfway through the book? HOMER: Halfway through the first line. [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/books/review/thomas-pynchon-the-simpsons-william-gibson.html Full article »] [[File:NYT-Essential-Pynchon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Illustration: ''New York Times'']]'''This overview of Pynchon's ''oeuvre'' by A.O. Scott for ''The New York Review of Books'' is quite good...''' "But hear me out: Those plots encompass crime capers, costume dramas, spy thrillers and combat epics. Pynchon’s pages teem with spies, gumshoes, femmes fatales and popeyed sailor men. If his books don’t exactly follow genre formulas, they nonetheless reliably dispense genre gratification. His dizzying inventions are built on a sturdy, sometimes half-invisible scaffolding of popular fiction. There’s more to it than that, of course. Graduate students revere him for a reason. But let’s roll with the conceit and proceed, in Pynchonesque fashion, to feed his defiantly anti-algorithmic work through a handmade mock algorithm. If you want an anarchist Dan Brown, a horny Robert Ludlum, a countercultural David Baldacci, Pynchon might be your man. Maybe that’s a stretch, and maybe (definitely) none of these books will stay in these conceptual boxes. But here are eight purposely whimsical recommendation prompts, gateways to a fictional universe that finally defies all categorization." [https://www.nytimes.com/article/thomas-pynchon-books.html Full article »] [[File:NYT-10-9-25-Review.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Illustration: ''New York Times'']]'''In her review, Parul Sehgal isn't thrilled by ''Shadow Ticket'', but her overview of Pynchon's work is very insightful and balanced''' "We cannot stop from searching, no matter that, in the world according to Pynchon, there may be no master key to uncover. But let us return to Hicks, toward the end of the book, in the embrace of a woman. She asks him if he likes her new perfume. He does, but before issuing judgment he tells her that he will need to ascertain exactly where on her body she has applied it, and he begins to search and sniff her playfully. It reads like a Pynchon quest in miniature — theatrical, ridiculous, earnest. It spoils nothing for me to tell you that we will leave him there — old Muscles McTaggart, wrapped in that woman’s arms, enjoying not a reprieve from paranoia but a new realization. Seek, as you must; seek all you want. The only satisfaction is in being found." 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