The celebrated author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” may have a cult following on campus and a reputation for formidable literary high jinks. But his novels are also just plain fun. Credit...Author photo by ...
The partial government “shutdown” is a pure political act. It has nothing to do with the amount of money the government takes ...
Everett Potter, author of "100 Train Journeys of a Lifetime" speaks about train travel with USA TODAY ahead of the ...
The good news about Shadow Ticket—the new Thomas Pynchon novel and his first in 12 years—is that it’s one of his private-eye stories. Fictional gumshoes make ideal Pynchon protagonists, guys not in it ...
His many novels, including the prizewinning “The Butcher’s Boy” and the Jane Whitefield series, could have sympathetic villains and intriguing heroes. By Sam Roberts Thomas Perry, a best-selling, ...
Seattle is a UNESCO City of Literature, but it’s rarely associated with one of its most renowned former literary residents. The reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon, author of such works as “Gravity’s ...
The cult of Thomas Pynchon is powerful and will only be bolstered by Shadow Ticket, the 88-year-old writer’s first novel in 12 years and one that, as an admirer of much of his previous work, I found ...
With next week’s publication of his ninth novel, “Shadow Ticket,” Thomas Pynchon’s secret 20th century is at last complete. For many of us, Pynchon is the best American writer since F. Scott ...
Knowing what exactly is going on has never really been the point of appreciating Thomas Pynchon, and that’s something his protagonists share with us readers. Though in the case of Shadow Ticket’s ...
image courtesy of netflix/bbc. Based on the real urban youth crime gang that ruled the English city of Birmingham at the turn of the 20th century, Peaky Blinders begins in 1919, a few months after the ...
England boss has taken an important lesson from a recent documentary he watched Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) THOMAS TUCHEL claims ...