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Best Reads of 2025
It's the end of the year, so we decided to talk about some books we read in 2025 that weren't Pynchon. Of course, we decided to do this after we fini…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Coming in 2026...
Starting 01 February 2026, Cody and Kate will be (kinda) deep-diving into another book. What's the twist? It's not a Pynchon book (cue "shocking" sou…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Against the Day: Chapters 24-25
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4 months, 1 week ago
Against the Day: Chapters 22-23
In hindsight, it may appear unfair to have just been gallivanting about in Europe, as we return this episode to circle the Colorado Traverses. Lake g…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Shadow Ticket (for real this time)
Quit your scratching and bleeding and put down the rosary, the cure of all your anxieties has arrived! At long last, the Mapping the Zone Review of S…
5 months, 1 week ago
Shadow Ticket: Spoiler Free review
It's finally here and we got to read it! Shadow Ticket, the newest (and perhaps final) novel by Thomas Pynchon is out in the wild and we are here wit…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Against the Day: Chapter 21
Wid'ya lookit that! It's been a hundred pages since our paths last crossed the Chums' of Chance, and here they are, in Venice. That ain't the only co…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Bonus Episode - One Battle After Another
Once in a lifetime, a moment comes around, and one has with the latest film from auteur director Paul Thomas Anderson! We take that moment to assess …
6 months, 1 week ago
Against the Day: Chapter 20
A spot of smoky rooms and heavy drapes suits us as finely as they do Lew, and somehow the more obscure the corner of history referred to by the coupl…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Against the Day: Chapter 19
With how things have gotten so real these past few eps, it's time to see what Lew's been up to in cheery old Inglund! These chaps, Nigel and Nuisance…
7 months ago