Page # | Title | Author
xi | Foreword | Martha Foley (Foreward)
1 | The Trouble with Being Food | Frederick Busch (Esquire 1976)
15 | Tarzan Meets the Department Head | Price Caldwell (The Carleton Miscellany 1976)
24 | Falconer | John Cheever (Playboy Jan 1976)
43 | At Peace | Ann Copeland (Canadian Fiction Magazine Aug 1976)
66 | Pleadings | John William Corrington (The Southern Review 1976)
102 | Growing Up in No Time | Philip Damon (Hawaii Review 1976)
111 | The Steinway Quintet | Leslie Epstein (Antæus 1976)
161 | The Lover | Eugene K. Garber (Shenandoah 1976)
181 | Look at a Teacup | Patricia Hampl (The New Yorker Jun 28 1976)
188 | Rider | Baine Kerr (The Denver Quarterly 1976)
205 | A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon | John Matthews (Malahat Review Jul 1976)
210 | A Passion for History | Stephen Minot (The Sewanee Review Spr 1976)
222 | The Woman Who Thought Like a Man | Charles Newman (The Partisan Review v43 #4 1976)
235 | Gay | Joyce Carol Oates (Playboy Dec 1976)
256 | Going After Cacciato | Tim O’Brien (Ploughshares Spr 1976)
275 | The Chink and the Clock People | Tom Robbins (American Review 1976)
291 | A Fresno Fable | William Saroyan (The New Yorker 1976)
293 | Breed | John Sayles (Atlantic Monthly Jul 1976)
317 | Your Place Is Empty | Anne Tyler (The New Yorker 1976)
338 | Anthropology: What Is Lost in Rotation | William S. Wilson (Antæus 1976)
351 | Biographical Notes | Misc.
355 | The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1976 | Misc.