Typed letter signed and typed questionnaire response : New Rochelle, to Katherine Fishman, 1970 Apr. 7.

Discussing, in a lengthy cover letter, her opinions and observations on the nature of the questionnaire, the current condition of American literature and literary criticism; clarifying and expanding on many of the answers she has given on the form; discussing Nabokov and "Ada" in relation to the question on which novels have changed the course of fiction; naming "Giles Goat Boy (Barth) and "Ada" (Nabokov) as two novels that altered the course of fiction and "The Heart of the Heart of the Country" (Gass) and "Lost in the Funhouse" (Barth) as two short stories who altered the course of fiction; naming Bellow, Updike and Oates as three writers who will dominate the 70s and "Nabokov, Updike, Barth, in that order" as writers whose prose style you most admire; naming "Mr. Sammler's Planet" as her favorite novel of the past five years and Edward Hoagland's "Alligator" as her favorite short story of the past five years .