Curtis White (author)

Curtis White is an American essayist and author. He serves as professor of English at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, and as President of the board of directors of the Center for Book Culture. Most of his career has been spent writing experimental fiction, but he has turned recently to writing books of social criticism.

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 (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 (Melville House Publishing, 2013)
• We Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data {Melville House Publishing, 2015}

As editor:

• An Illuminated History of The Future (FC2, 1989)
• In The Slipstream: An FC2 Reader (FC2, 1999) (co-edited with Ronald Sukenick)