Multiplications of Effect: Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket feat. Devin Thomas O’ Shea (Premium E321) Sample

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Devin Thomas O’Shea transports Travis to Milwaukee, 1932, where Thomas Pynchon’s newest novel Shadow Ticket kicks off with speakeasy intrigue, Depression misery, and a precision-engineered car bomb. Devin unpacks Pynchon’s characteristic hinge-of-history setting, when everyone’s forced to pick sides, as the book’s reluctant bruiser-turned-investigator Hicks McTaggart gets thrashed around by forces he can’t (and won’t) understand. Shadow Ticket’s paranoia, occult object-mysticism, and explosive politics connect to the real history of American labor violence: the Haymarket bombing and riot, the Bay View massacre, and the 1932 Ford hunger march. What can the novel, probably Pynchon’s last, teach us about our current strange moment in history? Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium QAA episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Devin Thomas O’Shea https://devinoshea.wordpress.com/ https://x.com/devintoshea https://bsky.app/profile/devintoshea.bsky.social The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis by Devin Thomas O'Shea — Coming June 2026 https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-the-veiled-prophet Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media and binge the entirety of our exclusive shows Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Truly, Tradly, Deeply by Annie Kelly https://cursedmedia.net Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.4	Welcome to the QAA podcast premium episode
0:39.3	321, multiplications of effect. Thomas Pinchons shadow tickets. As always, we're your host,
0:46.2	Travis Vue. And Devin Thomas O'Shea. All right. We're back for another contemplative literary episode
0:53.9	with Devin.
0:55.3	Yo, I think people's nerves are a little fried right now.
0:58.6	So I think let's get a little cerebral and thoughtful.
1:03.1	Yeah, let's go into the wide world of literature where nothing sort of applies to any current politics that's happening right now.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.0	Yeah, this is a good one new about Pinchon's latest.
1:15.9	Yeah, we're going to get everybody caught up.
1:17.6	They're going to know some of the structure of Shadow Ticket because, let's be honest,
1:22.8	getting into Pinch on is a hard thing.
1:24.6	So we're going to do a little rundown of the important stuff, maybe.
1:29.4	All right. Let's get into it. It's Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1932. You and your best gal are doing the
1:37.6	Lindy hop in a speakeasy, just a stone's throw from the misty, icy waters of Lake Michigan.
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