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Merry Christmas! (Prosecco)
Amidst the festive chaos, I am cracking a bottle of Prosecco and making everyone tolerate me taking pictures of it atop a paperback of a Pynchon tome. It’s tradition! (See e.g. Pommery, Perrier Jouët, Piesporter, Pink Champagne) (Apparently, without ever consciously deciding to do so, I have curated a strictly P-initial sparkling canon. P for presents?…
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French 75
Has there even been a better season to be a Pynhead? (May need to workshop that one a little more sorry…) Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a Vinelandish cherry on top of the Shadow Ticket sundae. And what a cherry it is! If it weren’t for certain other pressing responsibilities, I might…
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Sidecar
Shadow Ticket is with us! I hope you’ve had a chance to enjoy some time in the company of Hicks McTaggart, April Randazzo, Zoltán von Kiss, Glow Tripworth de Vasta, and the rest of our cast of characters Milwaukeean, Hungarian, and otherwise. Isn’t it a delight being back amongst all those beautiful Pynchonian names? Between…
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Crocodile
Exciting times! Shadow Ticket galleys are appearing in a few smiled-upon hands, and the rest of us only have forty-something days to wait before it’s in our preterite mitts too. In the meantime, PTA’s Vineland riff One Battle After Another is out in a month. Wildly for me, if less crucially for the rest of…
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Santiago Rum
So we have a cover! In the unlikely event that this is news to you, please find the USA (left) and UK/Aus (right) covers for Thomas Pynchon’s forthcoming novel Shadow Ticket attached below. Do you like them? I think I prefer the UK cover overall, although the diagonal text in the US version sets up…
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Mamajuana
Mamajuana at last! More than a decade in the uncorking, but its fumes were in the air right from the beginning of this Drunk Pynchon goose chase. Bleeding Edge was the original inspiration here, with the hollows in its DeepArcher crawlers’ webs sheltering obscure booze of various tantalising species, eminently googleable although often not so…
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Watered Moselle
Here’s a nice quick sensible weeknight Pynchon-in-Public happy-birthday-Thomas drink! Watered Moselle pops up towards the end of Gravity’s Rainbow, a wind-down drink as the wheels fly off and Slothrop dissipates into the polluted aether, or a last optimistic sip to lend us a little courage for the fight ahead. We find ourselves, between these rocket…
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Grappa
In-between my drinking this grappa and my writing about it here, a wondrous new window opened in the world: we are getting a new Thomas Pynchon novel! I struggle to overstate my excitement at this tremendous, improbable news. It felt like—feels like—the Christmas of childhood. No doubt you’ve read the blurb, clearly penned by the…
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Homemade Cider
The first fully homemade Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet signature artisanal homebrand alcohol featured here was beer, way back in 2016. It was six years before the next product of my fermentation cellar emerged, with 2022’s homemade wine. Now, in a portent of the fearsome acceleration and diversification of my amateur fermentation, we have two new…
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Homemade Sake
Back at the start of 2019, we drank some commercial sake here alongside the beautiful volumes of the Japanese edition of Gravity’s Rainbow, translated by Yoshiaki Koshikawa. I had realised too late that the sake under the Rainbow was actually homemade, and therefore an entirely different beast. We discussed a brief sake appearance in Vineland…
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