Shadow Ticket reviewed in the New Yorker

[Mark Kohut]

Few better sources than the novel, I say.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM Michael Lee Bailey via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> > Best wishes to those who want to go for it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Hope you continue to find great sources of what you’re looking for!.
>
> For me, Pynchon delivers pretty much everything a person could reasonably
> expect from a novel.
>
> For philosophy, social criticism, info on the machinations of the
> pointlessly violent & wealthy, and, goodness knows, emotion, there are
> many, many better sources than novels.
>
> But for language appreciation, enjoying the fruits of an author’s diligent
> research and life experience, some happy time absorbing new word from a
> by-now old friend, and a bit of Chaucer’s “sentens and solas” scattered
> amongst the verbiage,TRP can’t be beat! IMHO.
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