E.L. Doctorow on Ragtime.

Just wanted to throw up a link to a Q&A with E.L. Doctorow from New York magazine on how he wrote Ragtime. That novel appears on the TIME 100 and is one of the best reads on the list, evoking turn-of-the-century America with crisp language and the use of actual historical figures. It’s a serious work that also manages to be a page-turner.