The rest of the backstory, mostly.

[Mark Kohut]

Boris Kachka, though, in a rich 2013 investigation
<http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html>,
describes Pynchon after his first novel as “eager to break with” Lippincott
(publishers of *V. *[1963]) “and rejoin [editor] Cork Smith, since departed
to Viking.” Letters by Pynchon from 1962 to 1964, available at the Harry
Ransom Center
<http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00442>, support
claims about his dissatisfaction with Lippincott. Pynchon, Kachka
continues, “saw *Lot 49*” not as his next major work but “as a quickie
‘potboiler’ meant to break his option with the house—forcing them to either
reject it, liberating him, or pay him $10,000.”

Or about $73, 153.40 now
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