| Welty's Shimmering South | 3 |
| KAPP, ISA | |
| Liberals, Stalinists and HUAC | 6 |
| SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR Jr. | |
| The Novelist as Political Traveler | 8 |
| GLICK, NATHAN | |
| An Original from Missouri | 10 |
| GRAFF, HENRY F. | |
| Bracing Ridicule | 12 |
| PETTINGELL, PHOEBE | |
| Trials of a Radical Folksinger | 16 |
| GEWEN, BARRY | |
| A Cross Between Dickens and Runyon | 18 |
| RASKIN, A.H. | |
| Remembering the Levitas Salon | 20 |
| ROCHE, JOHN P. | |
| From Sensibility Toward Sense | 22 |
| SIMON, JOHN | |
| When Good Old Boys Crack Up | 25 |
| ROMANO, JOHN | |
| Memories of a Wistful Amnesiac | 26 |
| GOODMAN, WALTER | |
| Dreams and Haunting Grotesques | 27 |
| GIBIAN, GEORGE |
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