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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea

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author of THE VEILED PROPHET, forthcoming from Haymarket Books. writing in @thenation, @slate, @jacobin, @proteanmag, @boulevardlitmag — he/him — rep: Erik Hane, Headwater Literary https://linktr.ee/devintoshea

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 8d

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 4h

PTA’s Thomas Pynchon adaptations mark a shift in how readers encounter the novelist: cinema now replaces the classroom as a conduit. Our essay of the week traces Pynchon’s journey from academic postmodernism to popular cult figure.

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d

that's probably what happened honestly — but we can dream...

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No I don’t think so - but a civil war Mason & Dixon would be so cool

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d

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the big gap for Pynchon is the civil war

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn’t put it passed him - he’s always worked on multiple projects at once

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d

it do be like that

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d

took the classes to visit the state historical society of Missouri today and the homer g phillips hospital material was very cool

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about how I'm mad that I have to collect signatures to reverse the unconstitutional gerrymander of Kansas City!

Gov Kehoe will ‘let the courts decide’ on Missouri gerrymander rather than do his job • Missouri Independent

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called lawmakers back into session to gerrymandering the state's congressional map.

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 2d

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Pynchon and Splatterpunk in America on The Lit Hub Podcast

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 2d

icymi — check out the lithub pod

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 2d

cool that my freshmen comp students and peter theil are both into the same anime

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 3d

look at all this veiled prophet merch

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 4d

"Plus, what a good reader of Pynchon arrives at is a message in his books that is deadly serious. He’s a good mix of apocalypse and Looney Tunes..."

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 5d

Regret to inform the haters that it's another killer pod this week. @devintoshea.bsky.social on Pynchon, @trshboyoli.bsky.social on splatterpunk, @mbsycamore.bsky.social calling in to offer joy! COME ON, what more do you need?? (besides, I guess, the end of fascism but listen I'm merely a book guy)

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 5d

went on the @literaryhub.bsky.social pod to talk Pynch 🧨 with @drewsof.bsky.social 🔥

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 5d

it's the year of the Pynch 🫡

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 5d

went on the @literaryhub.bsky.social pod to talk Pynch 🧨 with @drewsof.bsky.social 🔥

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 6d

thank you Dr. Eve 🙏

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 7d

I wrote an undergrad diss on Pynchon, an MA thesis on Pynchon, a PhD on Pynchon, and a book on Pynchon & I endorse this sentiment

"Pynchon’s work is often labeled “Postmodernism,” but it’s also interpretable as a body of left historical literature concerning antifascism"

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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 7d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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