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South China Morning Post
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Thomas Pynchon's new novel Shadow Ticket to land on October 7, his first in 12 years
One month shy of his 88th birthday, Thomas Pynchon is set to publish his first book in 12 years. Advertisement Shadow Ticket is scheduled for October 7, Penguin Press announced on April 9. You could call the book, set in the American city of Milwaukee in 1932, Pynchon-esque. 'Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strike-breaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who's taken a mind to go wandering,' the publisher's announcement reads in part. 'Before he knows it, he's been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there's no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he's supposed to be chasing.' A social media post from Penguin Press heralds the coming of Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket. Photo: Instagram/penguinpress The famously expansive and press-averse author has not released a new book since Bleeding Edge in 2013.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Thomas Pynchon has a new novel coming this fall. It's his first in 12 years
NEW YORK (AP) — One month shy of his 88th birthday, Thomas Pynchon is set to publish his first book in 12 years. 'Shadow Ticket' is scheduled for Oct. 7, Penguin Press announced Wednesday. You could call the book, set in Milwaukee in 1932, Pynchon-esque. 'Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who's taken a mind to go wandering,' the publisher's announcement reads in part. 'Before he knows it, he's been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there's no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he's supposed to be chasing.' The famously expansive, and press-averse author has not released a new book since 'Bleeding Edge' in 2013. He is best known for the classic 'Gravity's Rainbow,' and his other works include 'V.', 'Mason & Dixon," 'Against the Day' and 'Inherent Vice.'
The Guardian
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade
Thomas Pynchon has written his first novel in more than a decade, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced. Shadow Ticket, due out in October, will be the American novelist's 10th book. Like his previous two, Inherent Vice (2009) and Bleeding Edge (2013), this new work is a noir novel about a private eye. Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Shadow Ticket follows Hicks McTaggart, a detective who is tasked with finding the heiress of a cheese fortune. He eventually ends up in Hungary, and finds himself entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British spies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal and outlaw motorcyclists. 'The only bright side for Hicks is it's the dawn of the big band era and as it happens he's a pretty good dancer,' reads Shadow Ticket's description on PRH's website. 'Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.' Sign up to Bookmarks Discover new books and learn more about your favourite authors with our expert reviews, interviews and news stories. Literary delights delivered direct to you after newsletter promotion The 87-year-old author is best known for his 1973 magnum opus Gravity's Rainbow, which some critics have called the greatest postwar American novel. He has covered all sorts of themes in his work, from music to mathematics, often exploring conspiracy theories and paranoia. Pynchon has mostly eschewed press attention ever since his postmodern debut V became a bestseller after its publication in 1963, covering windows with black sheets, writing all night and sleeping all day. After a camera crew recorded him in Manhattan in 1997 he called CNN to protest. 'Let me be unambiguous,' he said. 'I prefer not to be photographed.' Shadow Ticket will be published on 7 October by Penguin Press in the US, and Jonathan Cape in the UK.
Associated Press
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Thomas Pynchon has a new novel coming this fall. It's his first in 12 years
NEW YORK (AP) — One month shy of his 88th birthday, Thomas Pynchon is set to publish his first book in 12 years. 'Shadow Ticket' is scheduled for Oct. 7, Penguin Press announced Wednesday. You could call the book, set in Milwaukee in 1932, Pynchon-esque. 'Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who's taken a mind to go wandering,' the publisher's announcement reads in part. 'Before he knows it, he's been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there's no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he's supposed to be chasing.' The famously expansive, and press-averse author has not released a new book since 'Bleeding Edge' in 2013. He is best known for the classic 'Gravity's Rainbow,' and his other works include 'V.', 'Mason & Dixon,' 'Against the Day' and 'Inherent Vice.'
