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Michael Clune is the critically acclaimed author of the memoirs Gamelife and White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin. His academic books include A Defense of Judgment, Writing Against Time, and American Literature and the Free Market. Clune’s work has appeared in venues ranging from Harper’s Magazine, Salon, and Granta to Behavioral and Brain Sciences, PMLA, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has been recognized by fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and others. He is currently the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

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	Pan 3.17 avg rating — 2,202 ratings — published 2025 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin 3.88 avg rating — 716 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gamelife: A Memoir 3.41 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pets: An Anthology 4.44 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Against Time 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Capitalist Realism by Alison Shonkwiler (Editor, Contributor), Leigh Claire La Berge (Editor, Contributor), Michael W. Clune (Contributor) 3.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Defense of Judgment 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Literature and the Free Market, 1945–2000 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Suspended, The Bard's Tale II, Ultima III, Wulfenstein, Elite, Pirates!, Might and Magic II. I stack them, one on top of the other. My shy blue life climbs slowly up. My climbing life.

When I die, I will remember the color of the sky.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

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“Gratitude takes time. It’s the fruit of experience. It still feels new to me, I haven’t had it for that long. Gratitude came only after I’d passed through all the other feelings.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

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“To pass through addiction is to come to terms with not being where you are. More and more people are entering the modern world by passing through addiction.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

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