Autograph letter signed and autograph questionnaire response, 1970 Apr. 29

Acknowledging receipt of the questionnaire and saying "I'm not sure I've read any novels the last five years, as my list betrays, I'm still discovering Sterne, Nabokov, Turgenev, West, etc., & some of those may not even be Americans;" naming novels whose influence you feel as altered the course of fiction with "Pynchon's "V", Hawkes' "Second Skin", Heller's "Catch 22", Vonnegut's "Mother Night;" naming short stories whose influence has altered the course of fiction "Barth's stories, Gass "Pedersen Kid" etc., Barthelme's stories;" naming writers he believes will dominate the 70s "Barth, Gass, Oates, Hawkes;" naming Charles Aukema as potentially the most important new writer; naming "Vonnegut, Gass, Bourjaily" as three writers he would most like to have as neighbors; and the writers whose execution of character is strongest "Selby, Mailer, Malamud, Yurick."