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.