Pynchon does 9/11

Here's Pynchon on 9/11. No surprise, really--he's a New Yorker. (I've always assumed that he'd live on the Upper West Side somewhere--it fits, demographically--but OTOH I like the idea of my having snarled at him at the Key Food on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope for taking 20 items into the 10-or-less express lane.) He's even got a Rudy Giuliani cameo ("His face appeared on bills posted all over the wood fences around vacant lots, the rear ends of street cars, its all-too-familiar
bone structure shining with the unforgiving simplicity of a skull").

Story-wise, the Malus's mysterious cargo causes whatever happened.

Also, somewhere in here we have another stockyards image--people funnelling into the subways. (Earlier, we had the actual stockyards at the Chicago Expo, and the closing of the American frontier limiting and directing where one could go.)