With a manuscript note in an unknown hand "Stein tells LFH Aug. 6 he has messy ms of whole he will send. Book will be published in January / Stein & Day / PL 3-7285."
Responding to a questionnaire about the work of other authors which included 39 questions, saying "When I began reading through your questionnaire, I thought I would answer it, since the first question is one to which I had a ready response that I would like very much to put on record. Actually the two novels which I feel have been most influential that have come out recently (I am not quite sure whether they come within five years or not) are Leonard Cohen's "Beautiful Losers" and Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The rest of the questions, however, finally depressed me, some seeming unanswerable and some just trivial. So please cross me off your list;" replying to a four-question questionnaire about his current work; saying "I have just completed a new collection of my short stories to be called "Nude Croquet". This seems to me a more appropriate title for the whole group than "Pull Down Vanity", which I called my first collection;" commenting on his next project saying it is "also very near completion -- it's a kind of autobiography which describes certain key events in my life from 1934 until right now. It is not a very personal book, but is only about events in which I have participated which touch on big public issues. The whole thing is called "Being Busted", and it begins with me running away from the cops at age seventeen, reaching the climax when they catch up with me at last at age fifty;" replying to the question on his long-range plan for himself, "Stay alive and keep ahead of the enemy;" responding to the last question about whether he has anything that Esquire might be able to publish, "As a matter of fact, there may be a detachable piece from the "Being Busted" book which would interest you. Why don't you contact Sol Stein about this?"