Mark Doten

Mark Doten is an American novelist and librettist. He is the author of two novels, The Infernal and Trump Sky Alpha, both published by Graywolf Press, and he has been a librettist for the Los Angeles Opera and the San Francisco Opera.[1][2][3]

Mark Doten
Born
Minnesota, U.S.
EducationColumbia University
OccupationNovelist, librettist

The New York Times called Trump Sky Alpha "a funny book and a sad one, a bright one and a dark one, a distant sci-fi dystopia and a ripped-from-the-headlines tragedy. . . The book acts both as a novel and as a searching, tortured position paper on the use of media, message and, especially, satire in our time.”[4] The Los Angeles Times called Doten "one of our keenest and most inventive prose writers working today.”[5]

Granta magazine named Doten one of the best young American novelists in 2017.[6]

Works
  • Doten, Mark (2015). The Infernal. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781555977016. OCLC 879582832.
  • Doten, Mark (2019). Trump Sky Alpha. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781555978280. OCLC 1088909814.
gollark: Also, you wear uncomfortable helmets because otherwise you could be horribly injured.
gollark: Punishment is NOT really a good thing.
gollark: It LOOKS secure, but it's not very helpful.
gollark: Airport security is not ACTUALLY secure.
gollark: Well, yes, because it would be impractical to not do that, they're useful.

References
  1. Chapman, Ryan (March 18, 2019). "The Novel as Eating Machine: A Conversation with Mark Doten". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  2. Deuel, Nathan (March 8, 2019). "Q&A: Mark Doten on 'Trump Sky Alpha,' which imagines the president ruling the future from a blimp". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  3. "Mark Doten". Lewis Center for the Arts. Princeton University. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  4. "Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump?". New York Times.
  5. "Q&A: Mark Doten on 'Trump Sky Alpha,' which imagines the president ruling the future from a blimp". Los Angeles Times.
  6. "Granta names 21 of the best young American novelists". Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2017.


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