"Transition stories", a 1929 selection by E. Jolas and R. Sage from the first thirteen numbers featured: Gottfried Benn, Kay Boyle ("Polar Bears and Others"), Robert M. Coates ("Conversations No. 7"), Emily Holmes Coleman ("The Wren's Nest"), Robert Desnos, William Closson Emory ("Love in the West"), Léon-Paul Fargue, Konstantin Fedin, Murray Goodwin, ("A Day in the Life of a Robot"), Leigh Hoffman ("Catastrophe"), Eugene Jolas ("Walk through Cosmopolis"), Matthew Josephson (Lionel and Camilla"), James Joyce ("A Muster from Work in Progress"), Franz Kafka ("The Sentence"), Vladimir Lidin, Ralph Manheim("Lustgarten and Christkind"), Peter Negoe ("Kaleidoscope"), Elliot Paul ("States of Sea"), Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Robert Sage ("Spectral Moorings"), Kurt Schwitters ("Revolution"), Philippe Soupault, Gertrude Stein ("As a Wife Has a Cow a Love Story")