Curtis White is an American essayist and

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. Most of his career has been spent writing experimental fiction, but he has turned recently to writing books of

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Books

As author

*''Heretical Songs'' (short fiction) ( Fiction Collective, 1981) *''Metaphysics in the Midwest'' (stories) (Sun & Moon, 1989) *''The Idea of Home'' (Sun & Moon, 1993; reprinted by Dalkey Archive Press, 2004) *''Anarcho-Hindu'' ( FC2, 1995) *''Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics'' ( Dalkey Archive Press, 1998) *''Memories of My Father Watching TV'' ( Dalkey Archive Press, 1998) *''Requiem'' ( Dalkey Archive Press, 2001) *''The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves'' ( HarperSanFrancisco, 2003) *''America's Magic Mountain'' ( Dalkey Archive Press, 2004) *''The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work'' ( Polipoint Press, 2006) *''The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature'' ( Polipoint Press, 2009) *''The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers'' ( Melville House Publishing, 2013) *''We Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data'' ( Melville House Publishing, 2015) *''Lacking Character: A Novel'' ( Melville House Publishing, March 2018) *''Living in a World that Can’t Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today'' ( Melville House Publishing, November 2019) *''Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse'' ( Melville House Publishing, 2023)

As editor

*''American Made'' (co-edited with Mark Leyner and Thomas Glynn, Fiction Collective, 1986) *''An Illuminated History of the Future'' ( FC2, 1989) *''In The Slipstream: An FC2 Reader'' ( FC2, 1999) (co-edited with Ronald Sukenick)

Other works

*''It's Not About You'', a preamble to Lapham's Quarterly's Spring 2023 issue

References

External links

Essays and interviews

"The Middle Mind"
in ''CONTEXT''
"''Saving Private Ryan'' : Don't try to do no thinkin'!"
in ''CONTEXT''
"Chickening Out. Fear and loathing in the academy: Ward Churchill faces the dilemma of the holy whore", essay
, in Village Voice, 2005.
"In the Sharkcage with Curtis White"
: an interview by Trevor Dodge at ''Alt-X''
"An Interview with Curtis White"
: an interview by Ben Kuebrich for OxMag, May 2007.

: a music playlist for The Barbaric Heart at Largehearted Boy

''Harper's Magazine'', April 1, 2006

Audio

Lecture
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, (March 14, 2007)

Also

Vol. XVIII, no. 2
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