Part I, Inner-city New Jersey: Live for today / S.A. Solomon ; Soul anatomy / Lou Manfredo ; New day Newark / S.J. Rozan ; Newark black: 1940-1954 / C.K. Williams
Part II, Romance & nostalgia: Lola / Jonathan Santlofer ; The enigma of Grover's Mill / Bradford Morrow ; Broken glass / Gerald Stern ; Wunderlich / Sheila Kohler ; Atlantis / Richard Burgin ; August: feeding frenzy / Alicia Ostriker ; Part III, Commerce & retribution: A bag for Nicholas / Hirsh Sawhney ; Glass eels / Jeffrey Ford ; Meadowlands spike / Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini ; Kettle run / Robert Arellano ; Noir, NJ / Paul Muldoon
Part IV, Garden State underground: Too near real / Jonathan Safran Foer ; Excavation / Edmund White & Michael Carroll ; Long branch underground / Robert Pinsky ; Run kiss daddy / Joyce Carol Oates.
