Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, James Thurber: “To Be Thrown with Great Force”Small Towns, Big Cities
Eudora Welty, William Faulkner: Fiction, Friction***
Richard Wright, James Agee: Racial Redress, Photography
H. L. Mencken: The Sage of Baltimore
Delmore Schwartz: The Heavy Bear
A short film by Benchley: "How to Eat"
An interview with Thurber: "The Art of Fiction"
A story by Welty: "Why I Live at the P.O."
A speech by Faulkner: Nobel Acceptance
A poetry sequence by Wright: "Five Haikus"
An essay about Agee: "A Famous Man"
A review by Mencken: "A Book for the Gourmet"
A story by Schwartz: "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (pp. 34-43)
