The survivors / Elsie Singmaster --
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
The golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner --
I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson --
My old man / Ernest Hemingway --
A telephone call / Dorothy Parker --
Double birthday / Willa Cather --
The faithful wife / Morley Callaghan --
The little wife / William March --
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan --
Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe --
A life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger --
The iron city / Lovell Thompson --
Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
Bright and morning star / Richard Wright --
Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner --
The net / Robert M. Coates --
Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle --
Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw --
Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale --
The peach stone / Paul Horgan --
Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart --
The catbird seat / James Thurber --
Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling --
The wind and the snow of winter / Walter van Tilburg Clark --
The enormous radio / John Cheever --
Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford --
The NRACP / George P. Elliott --
In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher --
The other foot / Ray Bradbury --
Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams --
A mother's tale / James Agee --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
A circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor --
The first flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons --
The contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth --
One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson --
To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler --
The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall --
This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin --
Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen --
The old army game / George Garrett --
Pigeon feathers / John Updike --
Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner --
The keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter --
A long day's dying / William Eastlake --
Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates.