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.
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