The long and hard-working Hillel Italie at AP writes this....no reading involved I would say; he's writing the buzz

[Mark Kohut]

“Shadow Ticket,” Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon’s
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 latest novel is his first in more than a decade. Now 88, the author most
famous for the epic “Gravity’s Rainbow” has rarely settled for a simple
storyline. Like his comic novel “Inherent Vice,” there’s a detective at the
center of the narrative, one Hicks McTaggart, who will “find himself also
entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians,
practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles
that come with each of them.” (Oct. 7)