rumors before Mason & Dixon

[Julien Nègre]

Re: the famous rumors in the 1980s saying that Pynchon was writing a novel on the Mason-Dixon Line.
As others before me, the only consistent thing I have found is the famous 97-word 1978 Newsweek article by Bill Roeder :

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'spassion for "Mothra" and other Japanese horror movies. The other book involves the Mason-Dixon line, and Pynchonis 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, Pynchonwalked the 233-mile length of the Mason-Dixon line.
 
Any idea where that came from? (and should be expect a mothra novel soon?) Was there anything else beside this article?


      
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