Roth alter ego will make an exit

So long, Nathan Zuckerman.

Philip Roth’s fictional alter ego, a famous Jewish novelist featured in such novels as “The Ghost Writer” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “American Pastoral,” will appear for the last time in Roth’s “Exit Ghost,” coming out next October.

Roth’s ninth book with Zuckerman will tell the story of the writer returning to New York, where his encounters “with a new generation of writers and with an old, dying friend produce revelations that gravely unsettle him,” publishing house Houghton Mifflin said in a release Thursday.