Forthcoming Civil War Novel? ("Mason-Dixon Line")

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I have heard from time to time whispers of a forthcoming Civil War novel
> by Mr. Pynchon, and at one point concluded it was an April Fools joke just
> before the release of Against the Day.
> However, I was recently reading the chapter on Pynchon in Professor Bloom's
> collection on 'Novels and Novelists', where, after dissecting The Story of
> Byron the Bulb, he briefly mentions a forthcoming novel entitl'd
> "Mason-Dixon Line".
> Anyone know anything else about this?
> Given the current situation in America, I feel there could not be a more
> appropriate time...?

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