It is home to the literary institutions American Book Review, Fiction Collective Two, symplokē, and Cuneiform Press.

Amateur People was first published by the Fiction Collective in 1977, and has remained continuously in print since that time.

In 1983, the Fiction Collective in New York published his first book of stories, "I Smell Esther Williams."

Normal: An Illinois State University/ Fiction Collective Book/Sun & Moon Press.

New York: Fiction Collective, 1977.

Stolen Stories (short stories) (1984 Fiction Collective)

Meningitis (1978, novel, English, Fiction Collective)

Curt White, Fiction Collective's co-director, said that Congress should not be book censors and cultural czars, but should support Federal financing of the arts.

In 1974 he helped start the Fiction Collective, a publishing cooperative, and in 1977 he founded the American Book Review to focus attention on writers outside the mainstream.

He joined the Fiction Collective in 1974.