The magic will: stories and essays of a decade. - Gold, Herbert, 1924- (New York, Random House, 1971)
Programming the peculiar things.--A selfish story.--The magic will.--A death on the East Side.--The life contained in novels and the novelist's life.--A survival.--A day with the bogeyman.--A Haitian gentleman.--Max and the pacemaker.--"I want a Sunday kind of love."--Song of the first and last beatnik.--The older woman.--Letter from a far frat.--An evening with a beard in Joplin, Missouri.--"Let's kill the first red-haired man we see ..."--Waiting for the Forty-one Union.--From Proust to Dada.--Young man, old days.--My summer vacation in Biafra.--The death of Biafra as seen from San Francisco.--Stories I guess I won't write.