Typed letter signed and autograph questionnaire response signed : "Alpes Maritimes", to Katherine Fishman, 1970 Apr. 6.

Enclosing his completed questionnaire but commenting that he has "lived abroad during the last five years, and am somewhat out of touch with the 'hot centers' of the literary world in the U.S.;" naming "Steps" (Kosinski) and "Free-Wheeling" (Kerouac) as two novels that "might have influenced other writers;" naming Nabokov as the writer whose prose style he most admires "(in Lolita, anyway)"; replying to the question of which writer has the strongest narrative power, "None of the 'literary' writers of the sixties seems particularly gifted for 'narrative power' - which may well be one of the defects of the modern novel;" replying to the question on which three writers he would like to have as neighbors, "Writers I don't know, but would like to know: Robert Stone, Grace Paley, William Gaddis; pals, cronies already, Ivan Gold, Jay Neugeboren, Burton Hersh;" replying to the question asking for the three most effective reputation-makers, "I don't know. I don't think critic-reviewers 'make' reputations, except for themselves."