Here’s big news for literature buffs: Gravity’s Rainbow, the masterpiece by Thomas Pynchon, Seattle’s most-honored and influential writer, turns out to be a savage act of vengeance against our town, ...

Like the Zone in Gravity’s Rainbow or the Visto in Mason & Dixon, this is one of Pynchon’s subterranean territories beyond charted time and space, an unmessed-with refuge for outcasts ...