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 (
Polipoint Press, 2006) •
The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature (
Polipoint Press, 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) •
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) •
Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse (
Melville House Publishing, 2023)
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) ==Other works==