THE GREAT PRETENDERS

Re Gore Vidal’s “Live From Golgotha” (Sept. 13):

With any luck, some Christian fundamentalist group will put out a contract on Vidal.

Then he can slink back into the darkness of a well-deserved obscurity with Salman Rushdie and the other literary pretenders of the 20th Century.

What a waste of trees!

URI DOWBENKO, EMIGRANT, Mont.