Tag: Frenesi

• 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…

  mjhorn

  July 20, 2025

  Other spirits, Vineland

  Cuba, Frenesi, Hector Zuniga, Rum

• Fortified Wine Spritzer

  

  Partly on the wise urging of a reader here, I reread Vineland a month or so ago. My original go at it however many years ago was a bit juvenile. Gravity’s Rainbow was my first Pynchon, and this followed hot on its contrails. Predictably, I was craving paranoid pyrotechnics and wild world-historic tangents and wound…

  mjhorn

  July 9, 2023

  Cocktail/mixed, Vineland

  Annie Green Springs, Brock Vond, Frenesi, Gallo, Night Train, Weed Atman

• Rye Whiskey

  

  Rye shows up in both Gravity’s Rainbow and Vineland. In a weird coincidence, the paragraphs in the two books that mention the stuff both also mention Superman. Here they are. Gravity’s Rainbow (p. 752): Superman will swoop boots-first into a deserted clearing, a launcher-erector sighing oil through a slow seal-leak, gum evoked from the trees, bitter manna for this bitterest…

  mjhorn

  February 16, 2016

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Whisk(e)y

  Chandler, DL, Frenesi, Superman, USA