The invisible man: a biographical collage -- The good American / Arthur Mizener, David L. Stevenson -- Is "cute" the word? / Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Leslie Fiedler -- Magician, clubman or guru / Seymour Krim, David Leitch, Joan Didion, Isa Kapp, George Steiner -- A slight case of incest / Maxwell Geismar, Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner -- The cures for banana fever / William Wiegand -- Sensitive outsider vs. vulgarian / Ihab Hassan -- Between miracle and suicide / Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Barr, Dan Wakefield, Granville Hicks -- Holden and Huck: a quest / Arthur Heiserman, James E. Miller, Jr., Edgar Branch -- Against the cult of the child / Leslie Fiedler -- The phoenix / Martin Green, Christopher Parker -- Postscripts: Appendix A: The early stories / Gwynn and Blotner -- Appendix B: The language of the catcher in the rye / Donald P. Costello.