VLVL2 (9): "gigantic animal footprint"

[Dave Monroe]

Newsweek 
August 7, 1978, UNITED STATES EDITION

SECTION: PERISCOPE; Pg. 17

LENGTH: 97 words

HEADLINE: AFTER THE RAINBOW

BYLINE: BILL ROEDER with bureau reports

BODY:

   Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author whose last
book was "Gravity's Rainbow" in 1973, has two novels
in the works. One is said to be a science-fiction
thriller inspired by Pynchon's passion for "Mothra"
and other Japanese horror movies. The other book
involves the Mason-Dixon line, and Pynchon is now in
England looking into the lives of Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon, the British surveyors who established
the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary in the eighteenth
century. As part of his previous research, Pynchon
walked the 233-mile length of the Mason-Dixon line.

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--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> And prior to the publication of VL, wasn't there a
> rumor that Pynchon's next novel was to be "based" on
> a Godzillesque motif of Japanese monster flicks?

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