With a typed letter signed to Katherine Fishman, dated April 11, 1970 from West Barnstable, Massachusetts, declining to answer the questionnaire "about current American writing...It seems to me that editors would give you wiser, more alert answers than writers could."
Commenting on Leslie Fiedler; saying "That is so exciting about Leslie Fiedler. I've never met him, but I've followed him around the college lecture circuit, where everybody says he is one of the most splendid talkers in the trade. I had heard rumors that he sometimes mentioned my work, but never a clear account of what he's had to say about me;" replying to four questions on his own work; saying he is currently working on a "novel about a Pontiac dealer in the American Middle West, covering what happens to be my lifetime, 1922 to the present. It is called "Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday;" replying to the question on his long-range plan "...Five of my six kids are grownups now, and the youngest is 15, so the period of immobile domesticity and great financial obligations is about over. It's about time to invent a new life, which takes some doing."