His creative and critical writing has appeared in Harper's, Salon, Granta, PMLA, the New Yorker, and other publications.
[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] 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.
[7] Clune's second work of creative nonfiction, Gamelife, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2015.