The guest / S. Elkin -- Parker's back / F. O'Connor -- The potato-elf / V. Nabokov -- Nabokov's puppet show / A. Appel, Jr. -- "Charles Axis" (from Beautiful losers) / L. Cohen -- "Smolak" (from Henderson the rain king) / S. Bellow -- Pierre Menard, author of Don Quizote / J.L. Borges -- "Snowden" (from Catch-22) / J. Heller -- "V. in love" (from V.) / T. Pynchon -- In time which made a monkey of us all / G. Paley -- "Hencher" (from The lime twig) / J. Hawkes -- Novotny's pain / P. Roth -- In the heart of the heart of the country / W.H. Gass -- A change of air / I. Gold -- "The law" (from The floating opera) / J. Barth -- City boy / L. Michaels -- Gogol's wife / T. Landolfi --

The man who grew younger / J. Charyn

The Indian uprising / D. Barthelme

The solitary life of man / L.E. Litwak

This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / T. Borowski

"'The Christ' and his teachings" (from Soul on ice) / E. Cleaver

"White days and red nights" (from Stop-time) / F. Conroy

Where they burn the dead / C.T. Miller

Letters from Mexico / K. Kesey

Death in Miami Beach / H. Gold

The incubus / A.J. Guerard

Simcha / M. Mirsky

Luther / J. Neugeboren

"Wobbillobby Mobbays" (from The Steagle) / I. Faust

No! in thunder / L. Fiedler

Randof's party / J. Lennon.