Thomas Pynchon has a new novel coming this fall. It’s his first in 12 years

The elusive American postmodernist Thomas Pynchon, who has avoided the media since the 1960s and who gave us the cult novel Gravity's Rainbow, has announced the release of a new novel for October, his first since 2013.

The final act of Thomas Pynchon

Whisper it, very quietly, but the now 87-year-old author Thomas Pynchon is having something of a moment in 2025. Not only has his 1990 novel Vineland supposedly served as the loose inspiration for the eagerly awaited new Paul Thomas Anderson-Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration One Battle After Another, but the near-impossible has been announced: Pynchon will publish a new novel, entitled Shadow Ticket, around the time of the movie’s release. It will…

Reclusive Author Thomas Pynchon Announces First Novel in Over a Decade

Thomas Pynchon is set to release his first novel in over a decade, according to publisher Penguin Random House (PRH). Titled “Shadow Ticket,” the book will be Pynchon’s 10th release and is slated for an October debut. Like his previous works “Inherent Vice” (2009) and “Bleeding Edge” (2013), the new novel is a noir story centered around a private detective. “Shadow Ticket,” set in Milwaukee during the Great Depression, centers on detective Hicks…

The great unknown of American literature has written a new novel: "Shadow Ticket" will be published on October 9 in the original English language, and a few days later in German.

One of the greatest American writers set to publish first novel in 12 years

Set in the American city of Milwaukee in 1932, Thomas Pynchon’s new book Shadow Ticket is his first since 2013’s Bleeding Edge.

Thomas Pynchon announces new novel Shadow Ticket, his first in 12 years

Like his previous two novels, Pynchon’s next book is a noir detective story