Inside the hornet's head : an anthology of Jewish American writing / edited by Jerome Charyn.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Jerome Charyn -- Grandma Lausch (from The adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow -- Cunt crazy (from Portnoy's complaint) / Philip Roth -- The Guest (from Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin -- In dreams begin responsibilities (from In dreams begin responsibilities) / Delmore Schwartz -- Hester Street (from Red ribbon on a white horse) / Anzia Yezierska -- City boy (from Going places) / Leonard Michaels -- Levitation (from Levitation: five fictions / Cynthia Ozick -- Goodbye and good luck (from The little disturbances of man) / Grace Paley -- Death in Miami Beach (from The age of happy problems) / Herbert Gold -- The cellar (from Call it sleep) / Henry Roth -- The history of them all (from Beautiful losers) / Leonard Cohen -- No Kaddish for Weinstein (from Without feathers) / Woody Allen -- The magic barrel (from The magic barrel) / Bernard Malamud -- I stand here ironing (from Tell me a riddle) / Tillie Olsen -- Kaddish parts 1, 3, and 4 (from Kaddish) / Allen Ginsberg -- The little goat (from Haunch paunch and jowl) / Samuel Ornitz -- Letter from Mogilev (from The dark lady from Belorusse) / Jerome Charyn -- The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company (from News from the new American diaspora and other tales of exile) / Jay Neugeboren -- Escape from civilization (from The collected stories) / Isaac Bashevis Singer.