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Pynchon Pals is a podcast about finally reading Thomas Pynchon.

Join co-hosts and good friends Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long as they talk through, break down, and identify exciting new recipes from the works of one of American literature's foremost figures.

Just saw One Battle After Another? Picked up Shadow Ticket? Had Gravity's Rainbow on your shelf for a decade? Or just a longtime fan looking to revisit your favorites? Everyone's welcome to be a Pynchon Pal!

Support us at patreon.com/pynchonpals for additional bonus episodes, and follow us @pynchonpals.bsky.social.

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Episodios
  • 15: In which a real live rocket launches (Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.8-1.13)
    Apr 8 2026

    Discussions of Pavlov bookend interdepartmental conspiracy and pseudo-domesticity. Meanwhile Slothrop, like Benny Profane and Herbert Stencil before him, ventures into the sewer. Makes you miss the alligators!

    Next time—I misspoke in the episode!—Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.14-1.16 (not through 1.17), or pp. 94-139 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

    Support the show and get access to monthly bonus episodes at patreon.com/pynchonpals and follow us @pynchonpals.bsky.social.

    Show Notes:

    “Lavarand,” the physical cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator I couldn’t remember in the episode. It’s lavalamps!

    Related, “Generating Random Numbers With A Fish Tank,” by Tom Nardi via Hackaday.

    Scans of “The Kenosha Kid,” by Forbes Parkhill via Archive.org.

    Our previous episode on “Mondaugen’s Story” in V.

    “How to pay for genocide: Namibian victims of German colonialism want a say,” by Shola Lawal via Al Jazeera.

    “Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one,” by Catherine Sofianos via Mail & Guardian.

    “Little Albert study,” entry by Ronna F. Dillon, PhD and Amber D. Dillon via Ebsco

    Ariadne entry via the Encyclopedia Britannica

    Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, genocide, animal abuse, pedophilia.

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    Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

    Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

    Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.

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    2 h y 53 m
  • 14: In which the Pynchon Pals, in their arrogance, thought they could talk through more of the book in three hours (Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.1-1.7)
    Mar 25 2026

    Well, we’ve arrived at The Big One. Or, The First Big One, anyways. Join us -- again or for the first time -- as we puzzle out plots, diagram arcane organizational structures, and go long on bananas.

    Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.8-1.13, or pp. 48-94 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

    Support the show and get access to monthly bonus episodes at patreon.com/pynchonpals and follow us @pynchonpals.bsky.social.

    Show Notes:

    “Banana Breakfast,” by Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet

    “There Will Be Bananas,” by NPR’s Throughline podcast

    “Vintage Original Chiquita Banana 1940's Commercial Ads Complete Series!,” via YouTube

    “Bananas Don’t Taste Like They Used To. Here’s Why,” by Brandon Summers-Miller via Epicurious

    The Morrison shelter and other Battle of Britain era protections via the Royal Air Force Museum

    “Some Things that ‘Happen’ (More or Less) in Gravity’s Rainbow,” by Michael Davitt Bell. The simplest and most useful quick reference for the goings on in Gravity’s Rainbow we’ve found so far. Spoiler warning, obviously, for things we and maybe you haven’t read yet—and, less obviously, for references to things that will be (but aren’t yet) important.

    Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny.

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    Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

    Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

    Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.

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    3 h y 11 m
  • 13: In which we wonder, what if this book was, like, six times as long? (The Crying of Lot 49 Ch. 6)
    Mar 11 2026

    Angels, dark and light, descend on Southern California, and we bid adieu to Arnold Snarb, I mean, Edna Mosh.

    Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow sections 1.1 through 1.9, or pp. 1-60 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

    Support the show and get access to monthly bonus episodes at patreon.com/pynchonpals and follow us @pynchonpals.bsky.social.

    Show Notes:

    “The Simple Art of Murder,” by Raymond Chandler, online e-book via Faded Page.

    Thomas Pyncon’s introduction to Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, via pynchon.pomona.edu.

    Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, misogyny, suicide, antisemitism, pedophilia.

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    Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

    Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

    Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.

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    2 h y 48 m
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