Curtis White (author)

Curtis White is an American essayist and author. Most of his career has been spent writing experimental fiction, but he has turned recently to writing books of social criticism.

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)^[1]
• 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)^[2]
• We Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data (Melville House Publishing, 2015)^[3]
• 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)^[4]
• 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