Mark Doten

• Feb-2015
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A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror―an utterly original and blackly comic debut

In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful...

• Feb-2019
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A novel on the political madness of our time and the Internet’s deep workings, by the author of The InfernalOne year after the president has plunged the world into nuclear war, a journalist takes refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. On...

• Sep-2024
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The excoriating stories in Mark Doten’s brilliant first collection dissect the pathological narratives that shape our culture and country. Narrated by a cross-cutting array of White people—stupid and/or evil, well-meaning and/or blinkered...