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Mark Doten

Mark Doten

American novelist and librettist

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]

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

Works

  • Doten, Mark (2014) (libretto) and Ted Hearne (composer). The Source, an oratorio about Chelsea Manning, sets text from leaked military documents; it premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and was performed at the Los Angeles Opera and the San Francisco Opera.[7]
  • 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.

References

  1. [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. [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. [3]
    "Mark Doten". Lewis Center for the Arts. Princeton University. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump?". New York Times.
  5. [5]
    "Q&A: Mark Doten on 'Trump Sky Alpha,' which imagines the president ruling the future from a blimp". Los Angeles Times.
  6. [6]
    "Granta names 21 of the best young American novelists". Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2017.
  7. [7]
    Ramey, Corinne (21 October 2014). "WikiLeaks Inspires an Operatic Source at Brooklyn Academy of Music". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 February 2015.


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