Just as well it doesn’t touch on our idioms relating to Romanians….or Serbs…

Maybe the most bizarre provenance for a literary manuscript since the Aspern Papers #jackkerouac #ontheroad #paulcastellano https://t.co/mBIqg46fXE

Bonus pts to @alex_shephard & @markkrotov for managing to write something this facetious without mentioning Thomas Pynchon even once cc @PynchonInPublic https://t.co/ZFrraJNZWY

Suitable for background sound & vision on flatscreen when reading new Thomas Pynchon novel: the one ep online of this “prohi”era series w/Marvin Kaplan, Huntz Hall, John Banner, Mike Mazurki - & Dean Jones #thomaspynchon #shadowticket https://t.co/jDpDYmdzcc

…@nytimes the Gray Lady scoops @washingtonpost on the obit beat

Cc @PeterBeinart @MaxBlumenthal

Now it can be asked: is @marcfs13 any kin?

Cc @LeeSmithDC

Just learned that journalism Prof S Abdallah Schleifer of @AUC - in a previous incarnation, Beatnik Marc Schleifer- died last spring. Left with then-wife Marian Zazeela at home, @nypost pic 1961; right at Cairo house, @nytimes Style section 2009: #abdallahschleifer #marcschleifer

…William T Vollmann, whose novels have often been compared to Thomas Pynchon’s, reviews the latter’s latest #williamtvollmann #thomaspynchon #shadowticket

And out today from @USPS the Jimmy Carter stamp #JimmyCarter

Just days after I learned of the death in June of the most famous chimp of all J Fred Muggs, Jane Goodall’s gone #janegoodall #ripjanegoodall #jfredmuggs #davegarroway https://t.co/GuHMr0ZpNa

H/T Spike Priggen for screengrab

Decidedly weird unsold tv pilot, a sitcom about making a sitcom predating Dick Van Dyke Show but more “meta”, created by Max Shulman #maxshulman #dobiegillis #daddyo cc @SheilaKuehl https://t.co/zqlzeTnbml

Word’s come of the death of writer/director Henry Jaglom at age 87. He started as an actor; here he is essentially playing Bob Dylan on Gidget #henryjaglom #bobdylan #sallyfield #gidget https://t.co/b0dfSZ7Sha

First review of Thomas Pynchon’s new novel Shadow Ticket in @NewYorker ; Gen X Pulitzer winner @kathrynschulz essentially pans it cc @PynchonInPublic #thomaspynchon #shadowticket #kathrynschulz

Cc @PynchonInPublic

The name of one of the characters in Thomas Pynchon’s new novel Shadow Ticket unmistakably alludes to a phase of Rick Moody’s musical career; that is all ye know and all ye need to know. #thomaspynchon #rickmoody #shadowticket

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We interrupt the Great Father’s speech in Arizona for startling news: back on June 21, J. Fred Muggs died in Florida at age 73, according to the link below: #jfredmuggs #TodayNBC #davegarroway https://t.co/ekIwZejFwr