Mailer on 'Ragtime' (Letter)
Mailer's letter to the New York Times correcting William Borders's claim that he had asked for his wife to replace the extra playing his date in Ragtime.
“Mailer on ‘Ragtime,’” a letter to the editor of the New York Times (24 December 1980), in which Mailer corrects William Borders’s 17 December article (80.20): he had not, as reported, asked that his wife replace the extra playing his date in the film.