Pynchon's new book

[Clement Levy]

Hi dear fellows,
did you remember that?
(on the Pomona College Pynchon Page, as a report by "B.M.W. Schrapnel" 
of her third "sighting" of Thomas Pynchon)
URL: http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/adventures.html

[…] We drank and talked for another half hour, though, ate an order of 
chips and salsa, and he added that his next novel will be, well, 
"neo-gothic." Set in an American subtropical region that is over run by 
retirees from the Midwest and New York, the book's themes are greed, 
solipsism, and anti-environmentalism, with a dash of Armageddon. 
Destruction, death and gore abound. The heroes are aliens from a 
distant galaxy. These extraterrestrials are more plant than animal, and 
therefore appalled at how life has evolved on earth. You may guess the 
rest. […]

Shall we infer that the New Novel should set the scene in Florida? 
Maybe this page has been online for a long long time, the copyright 
reads 1995-1997. Can you remember when you read it for the first time?
Anyway, it looks like a hoax! don't you think so?

Clément Lévy