Mark Doten | |
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Born | Minnesota, U.S. |
Education | Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, 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]
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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Chapman, Ryan (March 18, 2019). "The Novel as Eating Machine: A Conversation with Mark Doten". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Mark Doten". Lewis Center for the Arts. Princeton University. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Greenman, Ben (8 March 2019). "Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump?". New York Times.
- ^ "Q&A: Mark Doten on 'Trump Sky Alpha,' which imagines the president ruling the future from a blimp". Los Angeles Times. 9 March 2019.
- ^ "Granta names 21 of the best young American novelists". Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2017.
- ^ 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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