Book Review as "even for a literary critic, something of a bore". But Will Self, reviewing the book in The Independent, wrote: "Abish, unlike a populist film maker, doesn't simply produce snapshots to be passed among the mass. He tears treasured portraits from our culture's family album and thrusts them into his cunning slide carousel. Clicking from one page to the next, we reflect not on the death of literary fiction but on its vitality." Abish worked and taught at Empire State College, Wheaton College, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Columbia University, Brown University, Yale University, and Cooper Union. He also served on the board of International PEN from 1982 to 1988. He was on the board of governors for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Abish was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998. Personal life Abish married Cecile Gelb, a photographer and sculptor, in 1953. They remained married until his death. They did not have children. Abish died on May 28, 2022, at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan at 90 years old. Bibliography Duel Site – poetry, 1970 Alphabetical Africa – novel, 1974 Minds Meet – story collection, 1975 In the Future Perfect – story collection, 1977 How German Is It (Wie deutsch ist es) – novel, 1980 99: The New Meaning – story collection, 1990 Eclipse Fever – novel, 1993 Double Vision: A Self-Portrait – memoir, 2004 Awards 1972 – Fellow of New Jersey State Council on the Arts 1974 – Rose Isabel Williams Foundation grant 1977 – Ingram Merrill Foundation grant 1979 – Fellow of National Endowment for the Arts 1981 – Guggenheim fellowship 1981 – CAPS grant 1981 – PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1985 – Fellow of National Endowment for the Arts How German Is It 1987 – Fellow of German Academic Exchange Service 1987 – MacArthur Fellows Program 1991 – American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal for the Novel 1992 – Lila Wallace – Reader's Digest Fund fellowship References External links "Sentimental Re-Education", John Updike, The New Yorker, February 2004 1931 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American poets Austrian emigrants to Israel Austrian expatriates in China Austrian expatriates in Italy MacArthur Fellows Israeli emigrants to the United States Israeli people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people