Curtis White, Author . Dalkey Archive $13.95 (332p) ISBN 978-1-56478-308-0
Divided into six sections to imitate the six sections Mozart wrote for his unfinished Requiem, White's latest novel deals in pattern and frequency rather than character and plot. Each section is made up of brief pieces: seemingly random notes,...
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Curtis White, Author . Harper San Francisco $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-058132-9
In March 2002 Harper's
ran White's controversial essay attacking Fresh Air
radio host Terry Gross (a "schlock jock"). The article sparked outrage at the author's choice of sacred cow to savage. White (Memories of My Father...
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Curtis White, Author . Dalkey Archive $13.95 (231p) ISBN 978-1-56478-369-1
White's (Requiem
) blandiose pastiche of Thomas Mann's famous novel throws Mann's protagonist, the young German engineer Hans Castorp, into central Illinois and the 21st century. White's Castorp, recently graduated with a degree in...
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Curtis White, Author Dalkey Archive Press $12.5 (158p) ISBN 978-1-56478-189-5
Not to be mistaken for TV Guide, White's (Anarcho-Hindu: The Damned, Weird Book of Fate) witty collection does revolve around a night of TV viewing, but these 1950s serials have never been seen on prime time--thanks to their adult content, their...
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Curtis White, Author Sun & Moon $30 (204p) ISBN 978-1-55713-045-7
Experiencing these weird, surreal, hilarious tales is a bit like stepping inside a Bob Dylan ballad. In ``The Phantom Limb,'' Dr. Allegro analyzes Mom's fecal sample to find out why she thinks her left arm is missing; in the title story, an Illinois
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Curtis White, Author Sun & Moon $10.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-55713-044-0
In this autobiographical and metaphysical novel, White ( Metaphysics in the Midwest ) takes episodes from everyday life and paws at them until they reveal their hidden strangeness. In a scene that recalls a common childhood fear, the narrator...
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Curtis White. Melville (Random, dist.), $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-61219-200-0
Novelist and critic White (The Middle Mind) outlines his concerns about reductionist "scientism" that seeks to explain the human mind as a machine at the expense of a great philosophical tradition. It's a hit-or-miss polemic that's as erudite in its
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Curtis White. Melville House (PRH, dist.), $16.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-61219-678-7
The first novel from White (Memories of My Father Watching TV) in 15 years is a comic, absurd delight. The queen of spells dispatches a masked, Zorro-like courier to rural Illinois in order to deliver a message to the marquis of N— (a thinly veiled...
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Curtis White. Melville House, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-61219-808-8
Novelist and social critic White (We, Robots) imagines counterculture as a sanctuary from the madness of a fractured world in this series of rousing essays. He traces the notion of counterculture back to the ethos of the 19th-century English...
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Curtis White. Melville House, $17.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-612-19994-8
Novelist White (Living in a World That Can’t Be Fixed) tackles debates within traditional and Western Buddhism in this provocative collection. Taking aim at everything from the secular Buddhism of writer Stephen Batchelor to “corporate dharma,”...
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