Typed questionnaire responses signed, [1969-1970].

Giving answers to 17 of the 39 questions in the questionnaire; stating, in a typed signed note at the top of page 1, "Mostly your questions are ones on which I either have no opinion, no information, or are of a kind I wouldn't quite like myself for answering anonymously. However I'd have no hesitation about subscribing either publicly or as a computed unit to the few answers I seem able to make;" replying to questions by saying "Catch-22" and "Armies of the Night" are two novels he feels have altered the course of fiction, that Jerry Bumpus' "Anaconda" is the most underrated novel, that Thomas Pynchon, Thomas McGuane & John Yount are potentially important new writers, that he's eagerly anticipating the new books of Joseph Heller and Ralph Ellison, that he most admires Nabokov's prose style, he feels the deepest emotional response to the work of Kurt Vonnegut and the writer whose execution of character is strongest "possibly Philip Roth;" saying his all-round favorite novel in the past five years is Nabokov's "Pale Fire" and favorite short story in the past five years is Cheever's "The Swimmer."