Mike Gold: a literary anthology / Edited, with an introduction, by Michael Folsom.

Title on spine: Gold: a literary anthology.

Includes bibliographical notes (pages 321-322).

Bucket of blood -- Three whose hatred killed them -- MacDougal Street -- A dammed agitator -- God is love -- Birth: a prologue to a tentative east side novel -- Two Mexicos: a story -- Towards proletarian art -- A little bit of millennium -- More news from nowhere -- from The American famine -- The password to thought-to culture -- Thoughts of a great thinker -- O Californians! O ladies and gentlemen -- Strange funereal in Braddock -- America needs a critic -- Faster, America, faster! a movie in ten reels -- Lynchers in frockcoats -- John Reed and the real thing -- Hemingway-white collar poet -- In foggy California -- Vanzetti in the death house -- Love on a garbage dump -- Go left, young writers! -- A letter from a clam digger -- Trotsky's pride -- Wilder: prophet of the genteel Christ -- Proletarian realism -- Why I am a Communist -- A report from the Dakotas -- Night in a Hooverville -- In a home relief station -- The gun is loaded, Dreiser! -- A love letter to France -- The second American revolution -- Renegades: a warning of the end -- The storm over Maltz -- A Jewish childhood in the New York slums.

"The editor worked with Mike Gold - the 'Father of Proletarian Literature' - during the last years of his life, gathering his writings. The resulting anthology is as Gold wanted it, emphasizing his literary output, and including some hitherto unpublished works. The poems, short stories, sketches and critical essays appear in their original texts, eliminating changes made in subsequent reprints. Folsom teaches literature at M.I.T. and specializes in American radical literature." - from the back cover.