Newsweek, April 28th, 1997
SOMETIMES THINGS ARE WHAT THEY seem. For years it was rumored (beginning, if you want to get picky, in this magazine) that Thomas Pynchon was writing a novel about the MasonDixon line. But anyone who knows anything about Pynchon knew that it couldn't be that simple. What was this reclusive mystery man really up to, under this preposterous Mason-Dixon cover? And where was he up to it? Tucked away in Timbuktu? No, as it prosaically turned out, he's been hiding in plain sight in Manhattan, with a wife and a kid and a more or less normal existence, if you can call anyone normal who won't talk to t...
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