BRETT BIEBEL teaches writing and literature at Augustana College. He is the author of 48 BLITZ and Winter Dance Party,and his writing has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, Alien Magazine, Hobart, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in the Quad Cities.

Fans of Pynchon have long needed a guidebook, a vade mecum (Latin for ‘go with me’) for Mason & Dixon, one of Pynchon's masterworks. Now we have a reliable one. It won't just help us with its plethora of puns, references, and allusions. It will deepen the book's humor—and its tragedy.

BRETT BIEBEL teaches writing and literature at Augustana College. He is the author of 48 BLITZ and Winter Dance Party,and his writing has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, Alien Magazine, Hobart, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in the Quad Cities.

Fans of Pynchon have long needed a guidebook, a vade mecum (Latin for ‘go with me’) for Mason & Dixon, one of Pynchon's masterworks. Now we have a reliable one. It won't just help us with its plethora of puns, references, and allusions. It will deepen the book's humor—and its tragedy.

BRETT BIEBEL teaches writing and literature at Augustana College. He is the author of 48 BLITZ and Winter Dance Party,and his writing has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, Alien Magazine, Hobart, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in the Quad Cities.

Fans of Pynchon have long needed a guidebook, a vade mecum (Latin for ‘go with me’) for Mason & Dixon, one of Pynchon's masterworks. Now we have a reliable one. It won't just help us with its plethora of puns, references, and allusions. It will deepen the book's humor—and its tragedy.