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

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, 2004) *''Anarcho-Hindu'' ( FC2, 1995) *''Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics'' (

, 1998) *''Memories of My Father Watching TV'' (

, 1998) *''Requiem'' (

, 2001) *''The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves'' (

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, 2003) *''America's Magic Mountain'' (

, 2004) *''The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work'' ( PoliPointPress, 2006) *''The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature'' ( PoliPointPress, 2009) *''The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers'' (

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, 2013) *''We Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data'' (

, 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) 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)

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

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, 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
at

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, (March 14, 2007)

Also

Vol. XVIII, no. 2
of the ''

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