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Walter Abish (December 24, 1931 – May 28, 2022) was an Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories. He was conferred the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship six years later.
How German Is It (Wie Deutsch ist es) is a novel by Walter Abish, published in 1980. It received PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981. It is most often classified as a postmodern work of fiction. The novel revolves around the Hargenau brothers, Ulrich and Helmut, and their lives in and around the fictional German town of Wurtenburg.
Alphabetical Africa is a constrained writing experiment by Walter Abish. It is written in the form of a novel. Writing in Esquire, Harold Bloom put it on a list of 20th century novels that will endure. [1] A paperback edition was issued in New York by New Directions Publishing in 1974 with ISBN 0-8112-0533-9. It was still in print in 2004.
It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year. The journal, edited from its inception to 2010 by LIU Post English professor and poet Martin Tucker, helped launch the careers of Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux and Walter Abish. Work that has appeared in Confrontation has been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Short ...
Although Burning Deck was a small, nonprofit press, it published works of innovative writing, including (alphabetical by author): 99: The New Meaning, by Walter Abish; A Geometry by Anne-Marie Albiach; Why Write? by Paul Auster; The Heat Bird, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge; Utterances, by William Bronk; The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell), by ...
Abish is skeptical of the life she's being brought into, and when Jacob suggests it's God's plan, she replies, "Perhaps God makes mistakes." She isn't afraid to speak up or talk back — a little ...
Walter Abish (1931–2022, Austria/US, f) Chris van Abkoude (1880–1960, Netherlands/US, ch), pseudonym Charles Winters Paul Ableman (1927–2006, England, d/f)
Both the editor and the distinguished staff of active contributing editors — including Walter Abish, John Ashbery, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Elizabeth Frank, William H. Gass, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Norman Manea, W.S. Merwin, Rick Moody, Joanna Scott, Peter Straub, William Weaver and John Edgar ...