first edition Softcover
1982 · (Saratoga Springs, New York)
by (GASS, William H., Cynthia Ozick, Alvin Rosenfeld, Ihab Hassan, Mary Kinzie, Leonard Nathan, Peggy Rizza, Deborah Pease, Frederick Feirstein, Edwin Honig, Jonathan Arac, Frank Kermode, Regina Janes, Russell Jacoby, Charles Molesworth) BOYERS, Robert, edit
(Saratoga Springs, New York): Skidmore College, 1982. Softcover. Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 251pp. Printed wrappers. Modest edgewear else fine. Salmagundi was founded in 1965 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015. The magazine has featured critiques on literature, philosophy, and social sciences. A couple stories and essays are written by William H. Gass as well an early version of the story *The Tunnel* which was later lengthened and published into a full novel in 1995. This issue also features Cynthia Ozick's "Puttermesser and Xanthippe" which was later printed in *The Puttermesser Papers* in 1997. Other contributors include Alvin Rosenfeld, Ihab Hassan, Mary Kinzie, Leonard Nathan, Peggy Rizza, Deborah Pease, Frederick Feirstein, Edwin Honig, Jonathan Arac, Frank Kermode, Regina Janes, Russell Jacoby, and Charles Molesworth. (Inventory #: 409209)