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 plays of a summer game / Tennesse Williams -- A Mother's Tale / James Agee -- The Magic Barrel / Bernard Malamund -- 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.