the new book?

[jd]

Generally speaking, yeah, it's about six months to a year of
promotions for a book.  I think that if Pynchon had a book coming out
this year we would have already heard about it - because I doubt that
a publisher would pass up an opportunity like Book Expo America to
plug something so big, or even an American Librarian Association expo
- I got a copy of Umberto Eco's Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana there
four or five months before it was released (galley copy).  So I would
imagine that if Pynchon had a book coming out this year we would have
heard about it by now, unless the release date is as secretive as the
author and they just want to drop it on us like a water balloon or
something.