Michael W. Clune

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Michael W. Clune is an American writer and critic. His creative and critical writing has appeared in Harper's, Salon, Granta, PMLA, the New Yorker, and other publications.

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Biography

Clune was born in Ireland and grew up in Chicago. [1] He received his BA from Oberlin College, and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. [2] He is currently the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. [3]

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Writing

Clune's memoir, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin, was chosen as a Best Book of 2013 by The New Yorker , [4] NPR's On Point, [5] and other venues. The critic Gideon Lewis-Kraus wrote that "the unusual risk taken by Clune's unusually good addiction memoir is its enduring lyrical reverence for heroin," and worried that this might inadvertently make the drug seem attractive to readers. [6] One critic noted that White Out and Clune's academic book Writing Against Time deal in similar ways with the human desire to experience the world as if for the first time. [7]

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Clune's second work of creative nonfiction, Gamelife, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2015. The critic Bijan Stephen wrote that Clune describes computer games as "spiritual experiences," and argued that Clune addresses heroin and games "in the same transcendent manner." [8]

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In 2019, Clune was named a Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Case English professor Michael Clune recalls his days of addiction in a new memoir, 'White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin'". cleveland.com.
  2. ↑ "Department of English". case.edu.
  3. ↑ "Department of English". Department of English. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  4. ↑ The New Yorker (December 18, 2013). "The Best Books of 2013, Part 2". The New Yorker.
  5. ↑ "The Best Books of 2013". onpoint.
  6. ↑ Gideon Lewis-Kraus (May 28, 2013). "In Heroin's White Thrall". The New Yorker.
  7. ↑ "The Millions : A Year in Reading: Bennett Sims". themillions.com.
  8. ↑ Bijan Stephen. "Life as Player One". The New Republic.
  9. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Fellowships Awards in the United States and Canada" . Retrieved 2019-04-19.
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