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

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to Bill Roeder in Newsweek in 1978: "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."
>
> http://www.vheissu.name/slsl/index.htm

Bill Roeder. "After the Rainbow: Bill Roeder with Bureau Reports."
Newsweek (United States edition), August 7, 1978, Section Periscope:
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http://www.vheissu.name/slsl/index.htm#een