With the revival of the Tony-Award winning musical just recently opening on Broadway (I have tickets for later this week!) I thought it was a good time to refresh my memory of E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel, Ragtime. I first read the novel at the suggestion of my father somewhere around 20 years ago, so I had no recollection of the plot and characters at all, really. The plot is a bit hard to summarize. Doctorow takes a sort-of panoramic approach to American life from […]