This is FICTION, Vol 4, No 2. 1976, an early edition of an ongoing literary magazine founded in 1972 by Mark Jay Mirsky, Donald Barthelme, and Max Frisch and published by the Department of English, City College of New York. This issue is hard to find and includes welll known writers such as Yuri Olesha,  a Soviet dissident, Alice Hoffman, Roland Barthes the French philosopher, Flann O'Brien, Irish author, and Grace Paley. Features photographs by Joseph Szabo and Shelly Rusten. Oversized, 10 x 14 inches. 32 pages + pictorial carton covers, stapled and tight.  NF/ VG+ condition. 

GRACE PALEY taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1966 to 1989, and helped to found the Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York in 1967. She also taught at Columbia University, Syracuse University and the City College of New York.  In 1980, she was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1989, Governor Mario Cuomo made her the first official New York State Writer. She was the Vermont State Poet Laureate from March 5, 2003 until July 25, 2007. 

ALICE HOFFMAN is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships. The story published here "Kindness" precedes the publication of her first novel.