https://www.markdoten.com Mark Doten Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:36:22 +0000 https://www.markdoten.com en http://www.markdoten.com/EVENTS Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:36:22 +0000 Mark Doten 457627 WHITES | OTHER BOOKS ETC | EVENTS&nbsp; | BIO&nbsp; Events for WHITES DC Thursday, Aug 21, 7:00 PMPolitics &amp; Prose (Conn Ave) With Shannon Sanders Minneapolis Thursday, Sept 4, 7:00 PM Magers &amp; Quinn With Alice Bolin Brooklyn Thursday, Sept 11, 7:00 PM POWERHOUSE Arena (Dumbo) With Ed Park and Adam Wilson WHITES | OTHER BOOKS ETC | EVENTS&nbsp; | BIO&nbsp; Events for WHITES DC Thursday, Aug 21, 7:00 PMPolitics &amp; Prose (Conn Ave) With Shannon Sanders ... http://www.markdoten.com/NOVELS-AND-LIBRETTO Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:38:12 +0000 Mark Doten 259456 WHITES: STORIES | NOVELS AND LIBRETTO | BIO TRUMP SKY ALPHA / novel Graywolf Press <img width="1650" height="2475" width_o="1650" height_o="2475" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f1a21022c53258f98dde9801a9dc406196bdd655dad57eb3f90605ea4e463a71/IMG_1444.jpg" data-mid="445779" border="0" data-scale="22"/> “[Doten] launches Trump Sky Alpha at the bull's eye of reality with such velocity that it bursts through the other side. This is speculative fiction as burning ring of fire." The Washington Post “One of our keenest and most inventive prose writers.” The Los Angeles Times“Doten assembles a perverse thing of beauty from the cruel theater of the presidency… a text that’s as much a narrative as it is a work of speculative media theory.” The Nation “Trump Sky Alpha is 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 New York Times Book Review “Trump Sky Alpha is the first and last Trump novel I’ll ever want to read.” The Millions“To enshrine in such beauty and intelligence a country that so despises beauty and intelligence is an act of rogue hope and antic compassion. In Trump Sky Alpha, Mark Doten emerges as the shadow president of our benighted generation of American literature.”Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus THE INFERNAL / novel Graywolf Press <img width="1400" height="2100" width_o="1400" height_o="2100" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/68174922a4a18ad630f533770abcbbd9eb29853b262e716655112515381bd4fd/mark-doten-the-infernal-book-cover.jpg" data-mid="1264183" border="0" data-scale="20"/> "Doten’s debut is the most audaciously imaginative political novel I’ve ever read... the sheer poundage of originality is remarkable."The New York Times Book Review "Kurt Vonnegut took on the Second World War. Robert Coover, Thomas Pynchon and Joseph Heller grappled with Vietnam. In the same spirit of dark comedy and riotous satire, Doten powerfully reimagines our latest American adventure."The Los Angeles Times "A screaming hysterical novel of protest, the kind rarely seen since the heyday of Thomas Pynchon... This is our legacy writ large and scrambled."The Daily Beast"[A] prodigious, provocative debut. . . . Touched by brilliance throughout."The Washington Post "Doten has created an impressionistic map of the atomized imperial realities of the War on Terror, and it is every bit as harrowing to consider as the inane and bloodthirsty era it depicts." The Believer“Doten’s most vivid, complete character comes when he plays it (mostly) straight. His Tom Pally, an insane soldier with a blown-off leg who’s attempting to make dinner reservations on his wedding anniversary, should rank among the most revealing, chilling portrayals of the ravages of PTSD written since Iraq.” Maclean’s &nbsp; THE SOURCE / oratorio Composed by Ted Hearne Libretto by Mark Doten Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival Performances at SF Opera, LA Opera,and the Music Theatre NOW festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands Album from New Amsterdam Records &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="675" height="374" width_o="675" height_o="374" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8fb3a3e72afc2c4c6ee9cc0a8351e6ad9d9270b3c9983352465e71e9e725df5a/27034f_7fd94fd2924543ecab45afbfeda552b4.jpg" data-mid="1264185" border="0" data-scale="52"/>“A 21st-century masterpiece.” The New York Times“It evokes our time, the age of atomized digitized information, more potently than any piece of music I’ve heard.”The Nation “A complex mirror image of an information-saturated, mass-surveillance world, [that] remains staggering in its impact....The Source,&nbsp;based on a libretto by Mark Doten, is a mesmerizing and disquieting collage of vocal, instrumental, and recorded sounds.” The New Yorker“Some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory—from any genre.” Pitchfork “[An] &nbsp;ambitious, bewildering, stealthily shattering new oratorio about Chelsea Manning and her disclosure of hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.... It offers a fresh model of how opera and musical theater can tackle contemporary issues: not with documentary realism—film and television have that covered—but with ambiguity, obliquity, and even sheer confusion.” The New York Times“[H]arrowing.... Mark Doten’s libretto is drawn directly from those leaked documents and from the chat log of Pfc. Manning and the hacker Adrian Lamo, who turned her in. But this is no ripped-from-the-headlines documentary; rather, Mr. Hearne creates an environment of chaos and disorientation that gradually and excruciatingly envelops the listener.” The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal&nbsp; WHITES: STORIES | NOVELS AND LIBRETTO | BIO TRUMP SKY ALPHA / novel Graywolf Press “[Doten] launches Trump Sky Alpha at the bull's eye of reality with such... http://www.markdoten.com/BIO Mon, 21 Mar 2016 02:55:58 +0000 Mark Doten 46148 WHITES: STORIES | NOVELS AND LIBRETTO | BIO Mark Doten is the author of the story collection Whites and the novels Trump Sky Alpha and The Infernal. They were named to Granta’s once-a-decade “Best of Young American Novelists” list, and were awarded N+1’s Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize. Their writing has appeared in N+1, Granta, Guernica, The Lterary Review, The&nbsp;Believer, and Conjunctions. &nbsp; As a librettist, their work has been staged at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the Los Angeles Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and the Music Theatre NOW festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands. They are the executive editor for literary fiction at Soho Press, and&nbsp; have taught in the creative writing programs of Princeton and Columbia. <img width="2316" height="3088" width_o="2316" height_o="3088" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/57bd0e2ebcab2dbc0f44b689e73c3ccc279ff6b7a40992390348c246ca3c6dfd/IMG_8989-2.jpeg" data-mid="1264230" border="0" data-scale="49"/> For rights inquiries, contact Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency: bill@thecleggagency.com WHITES: STORIES | NOVELS AND LIBRETTO | BIO Mark Doten is the author of the story collection Whites and the novels Trump Sky Alpha and The Infernal. They were... http://www.markdoten.com/News Mon, 21 Mar 2016 02:55:38 +0000 Mark Doten 46147 Home News 8/22: It’s not Covid, and there was not sexual abuse: new story at &nbsp;n+1:&nbsp; “Dying but It’s Something Else” 2/22: A story about a nurse home employee who refuses to get vaccinated, at n+1&nbsp;: “Every Soul Ever.” 2/22: Remembering the brilliant and beautiful Anthony Veasna So with others at n+1. 11/20: A story about a gen X gay white supremacist, a pair of gen Z social media would-be stars, and bad consequences, at n+1: “The Banana Bunch Challenge.”&nbsp; 10/7/20: Stephen and Katie Miller COVID story at n+1: “White Cough Genocide:&nbsp;October 6, 2020.”10/5/20: Trump and Melania COVID story at n+1: “It’s German for ‘The Trump, The’: Oct 3-4, 2020.” 3/12/20: Interview w/Abraham Riesman about Trump Sky Alpha parts 1 and 2.&nbsp; 12/11/19: Trump Sky Alpha makes Dennis Cooper’s year-end list.9/22/19: Brooklyn Book Fest panel with Ted Chiang and N.K. Jemisin. 3/8/19: “Ever read a crazy book standing up, yelping in horror, transfixed by the way it's both insane and all too real? Mark Doten’s new novel, Trump Sky Alpha, might give you this feeling, imagining as it does one logical but dark conclusion to the current administration... [Doten] is one of our keenest and most inventive prose writers working today.”—Nathan Deuel, The Los Angeles Times 3/8/19: “[Doten] channels the brusqueness of the president's Twitter feed into a vivid literary depiction. And this is indeed a novel where Twitter personas don't just matter: They are, in fact, at the heart of this heady work's thematic concerns. . . . Fundamentally, this is a long and thrilling meditation on information and disinformation, on personas and the elusiveness of truth.”—Tobias Carroll, The Star Tribune 3/8/19: “Trump Sky Alpha is 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.”—Ben Greenman, The New York Times Book Review 3/7/19: Review at The Nation by Lisa Borst: “Doten [is] a virtuosic satirist.... This is bracingly good satire, so attentive to the subtleties of its object of caricature that it feels almost documentary.” 2/26/19: Dennis Cooper features Trump Sky at DC’s.&nbsp; 2/19/19: Review at&nbsp;The Washington Post by Melissa Holbrook Pierson: “[Doten] launches Trump Sky Alpha at the bull's eye of reality with such velocity that it bursts through the other side. This is speculative fiction as burning ring of fire. . . . Perversely satisfying, this tour de force of vicious satire is cathartic. . . . Dizzy with metaphor, Trump Sky Alpha is a cautionary tale for a time when we have become inured to flashing yellow all around." 2/18/19:&nbsp; Review at Open Letters Review&nbsp;by Tom LeClair: “[Trump Sky Alpha is] a novel that dares to be simultaneously OCD topical and rigorously inventive and left-field profound and wholly accessible. . . . Trump Sky Alpha will be a much-appreciated and long-remembered introduction to a young novelist worthy of comparison to those twentieth-century old masters of American politics and literary forms.” 2/18/19: Interview with Jacob Silverman at Longreads: “Mark Doten is a deranged seer, a mad scribe mapping the end of the world.” 2/5/19: "There were only a few moments left for the internet..." An excerpt from Trump Sky Alpha at Guernica. Jan:&nbsp; Booklist reviews Trump Sky Alpha: “[An] unconventional and darkly satirical mix of memes, Twitter jokes, Q&amp;As, and tightly written stream-of-consciousness passages. . . . Doten's speculative tale is very strange and chilling, subversive and surreal, and disturbingly relevant.” Jan : Library Journal reviews Trump Sky Alpha: “This macabre vision of a future America presents a frighteningly real scenario and brings into focus the pervasive yet inane power of politicians and the Internet. Scary bedtime reading that will make you think.” Dec /Jan:&nbsp;Trump Sky Alpha in most anticipated&nbsp; of 2019 lists from The Millions,&nbsp;HuffPo,&nbsp;Lit Hub,&nbsp;NYLON, Big Other, and The International Business Times. 12/24/18: Publishers Weekly reviews Trump Sky Alpha: “By turns a dystopian nightmare, a cyber thriller, a spot-on treatise on memes, and a tragic tale of love and loss...A blistering and heartbreaking satire.” 12/28/18: It’s not online, but Trump Sky Alpha is highlighted in an article on dystopian literature in the Italian magazine Il venerdì di Repubblica.<img width="732" height="416" width_o="732" height_o="416" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/68f4ebfce2f3038a59d7cfaa05212d4781ed18973cca98411916ecc2f0ad7585/Screen-Shot-2018-12-30-at-11.04.14-AM.png" data-mid="610300" border="0" /> Also, here’s the Italian Cover of Trump Sky Alpha, which will be published by&nbsp; Chiarelettere in February, 2019.<img width="1258" height="1932" width_o="1258" height_o="1932" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/367542486354f02686bc48463103f5d54e0f0b77b2708a4d91ceb6c4d70c84ef/46739344_10216993760932169_1394483981595967488_o.jpg" data-mid="610301" border="0" /> 12/4/18: I interviewed Sam Lipsyte for the Paris Review. &nbsp; 8/29/18:&nbsp;Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert: “A half-dozen rising stars, from Mark Doten and Valeria Luiselli to Brendan Mathews and Esmé Weijun Wang, make their apearance in February 2019 ...&nbsp;Soho Press literary editor Doten debuted with The Infernal, a surreal, brilliantly imagined evocation of war’s ugly truths that got him named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He returns with another mind cruncher featuring a crazed president routinely piloting his luxe airship Trump Sky Alpha.... Calling all sophisticated readers.” 8/17/18: New short story, “Piss&nbsp; Trump,” up at N+1.&nbsp; 6/21/18: Q&amp;A with Author’s Guild about working as both a writer and editor. <img width="535" height="328" width_o="535" height_o="328" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d6ed0d910c43a19e2e1b601b4560be337a0a413c1be3e0405c66c988dc26eae8/Screen-Shot-2018-07-19-at-11.56.34-AM.png" data-mid="495228" border="0" />5/9/17:&nbsp;Vulture review of the pieces in GRANTA’S BEST OF YOUNG AMERICAN NOVELISTS:“’Trump Sky Alpha’ combines the language of actual politics with the sort of nightmare images that politics inspires.” 5/7/17: Guardian review of the pieces in GRANTA’S BEST OF YOUNG AMERICAN NOVELISTS: “Ben Lerner, Jen George and Mark Doten stand out in an impressive, largely avant-garde collection of stories..... Written in immense run-on sentences that owe a debt to David Foster Wallace, [Doten’s] piece, one of the volume’s best and certainly its most attention-grabbing, imagines Trump rising from the White House at the helm of a 1,000ft luxury zeppelin while pontificating to the nation via a YouTube feed. Oh and nuclear apocalypse is raging in the background.”4/26/17: Named one of Granta’s BEST OF YOUNG AMERICAN NOVELISTS. <img width="1713" height="2481" width_o="1713" height_o="2481" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0ed6a3ffd2f194c940bac34ece8da8492b3ab54e5612a0299287de1e591133f8/G139-COVER.jpg" data-mid="495229" border="0" /> 1/1/17: SF Opera brings The Source to San Francisco for six performances between February 24 and March 3. Tickets and information here.&nbsp;12/12/16: Alex Ross reviews The Source in The New Yorker. “Staggering in its impact.“10/19/16-10/23/16:&nbsp;LA Opera brings The Source to Los Angeles for five performances at REDCAT. 9/6/16:&nbsp; Short story narrated by President Trump in N+1.&nbsp; (Spoiler: nuclear apocalypse.) 9/16/16: On Buzzfeed, “16 Books That Perfectly Match New York Fashion Week Looks.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1284" height="1060" width_o="1284" height_o="1060" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e26292a52eb9c45503bb81a722ae4ff3536947369df80153ad34bafe8129122b/Screen-Shot-2016-09-28-at-9.21.22-PM.png" data-mid="30777" border="0" />9/16/16: The New York Times calls The Source a “21st-century masterpiece.”&nbsp; 10/16/15: Conversation in BOMB about The Infernal&nbsp;with the remarkable Peter Dimock. 10/5/15: Infernal Brooklyn Rail review:&nbsp;"Eichmann on OxyContin." 8/30/15: I interview John Darnielle for Vice on "Horror, His Novel ‘Wolf in White Van,’ and the Enduring Appeal of Pasolini" 8/10/15: Infernal in Vol. 1 Brooklyn's "The Best Debut Novels of 2015 So Far": the novel "features one of the creepiest sequences of body horror you’re likely to encounter." 5/24/15: Infernal Los Angeles Review of Books review: "Audacious... closer to South Park than to Scripture." 4/22/15: Infernal makes the AV Club: "it’s a heavy fallout-shelter mindfuck." 4/8/15: Victory in Literary Death Match, AWP Minneapolis edition. 4/1/15: Profile in my hometown paper, the Hastings Star Gazette. "He grew up near what is now Target in Cottage Grove but attended school in Hastings from the eighth grade on." 3/30/15: Infernal Washington Post review: "Prodigious, provacative." 3/22/15: Infernal listed in Library Journal's "Spring Best Debuts: First Novels" 3/6/15: Infernal Los Angeles Times review: "Deliriously demented." 3/6/15: Infernal on Buzzfeed's "16 Of The Most Exciting Books Of 2015 From Independent Publishers." 3/5/15: Interview at Electric Lit. Big Infernal spoilers. 3/2/15: Infernal listed in Library Journal's indie press round-up: "A brilliant imagining of what fiction can do." 2/26/15: Infernal Daily Beast review: "An audacious Pynchonesque debut." 2/21/15: Infernal Minneapolis Star Tribue review: "Thanks to Mark Doten, we can see this war that still haunts us in a new and necessary light." 2/20/15: Infernal New York Times review: "Doten’s debut is the most audaciously imaginative political novel I’ve ever read... the sheer poundage of originality is remarkable." 2/9/15: Infernal Electric Lit review: ""[A] success, and an utter delight." 1/19/15: At Harper's (subscriction required), Joshua Cohen reviews The Infernal along with books by Tom McCarthy and Elliot Ackerman. "To Doten, information is the soul; it is inside us, and it is evil.... [R]avishingly mad." 1/9/15: Infernal Believer review. "Doten has created an impressionistic map of the atomized imperial realities of the War on Terror, and it is every bit as harrowing to consider as the inane and bloodthirsty era it depicts." 1/8/15: Infernal on BuzzFeed's "27 Of The Most Exciting New Books Of 2015." 1/8/15: Infernal starred Kirkus review. "A stylish, surreal portrait of a 21st century gone mad." 1/5/15: The Infernal makes The Millions "Most Anticipated: The Great 2015 Book Preview." "Early readers have reached for adjectives like 'deranged,' 'crazy,' and 'insane,' in addition to the more usual 'thrilling' and 'dazzling.'" 1/1/15: My year-end list at Vol. 1 Brooklyn, in which I write about Catherine Lacey, Claudia Rankine, and the Comedy Bang! Bang! power trio of Andy Daly, Jason Mantzoukas, and Scott Aukerman. 12/23/14: Blake Butler writes about The Infernal (among other books) in VICE, calling it "a great and hopeful mark for the direction of 2015, where anything can happen." 12/15; 12/31/14: The Memorious Blog previews The Infernal (and other books) here and here. 12/11/14: The Source listed by The New York Times as one of the "Best Classical Vocal Performances of 2014." 11/17/14: Publishers Weekly review of The Infernal. "Artfully deranged." 10/14: Reviews of The Source in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The Source is #4 on New York Magazine's list of things to do. More links here. 9/14: The New York Times puts The Source on their list of top 100 arts events of the fall. 8/14: Library Journal lists The Infernal as an "essential debut." 6/14: Early mention of The Infernal in Vol. 1 Brooklyn. 5/14: Early mentions of The Source in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. 2013: At the American Reader, I compiled all of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's tweets about insomnia. &nbsp; 2007: Early excerpt from The Infernal in New York Magazine—this was from way back in 2007, when I was calling it Green Zone Kidz. These few paragraphs remain similar, but most of the rest of the book has totally reorganized itself. Trump Sky Alpha | The Infernal | The Source |&nbsp;News | Events | Bio Home News 8/22: It’s not Covid, and there was not sexual abuse: new story at &nbsp;n+1:&nbsp; “Dying but It’s Something Else” 2/22: A story about a nurse... http://www.markdoten.com/WHITES Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:09:56 +0000 Mark Doten 45904 WHITES: STORIES | NOVELS AND LIBRETTO | BIO&nbsp; WHITES STORIESLinks to excerpts, interviews, and full reviews&nbsp;here <img width="1800" height="2700" width_o="1800" height_o="2700" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/46dd3e1c174cc5b9018a0e8dbfc82b39993bdc55f39bc216d8369a0233692472/9781644452905.jpg" data-mid="1390693" border="0" data-scale="22"/> An Electric Lit Best Story Collection of 2025 A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025 Washington Post: 30 Books To Read this Summer Vulture: 28 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer &nbsp;“In our extremist political climate and celebrity-book-club-oriented literary one, I’m glad this collection — and daring, pyrotechnically gifted, berserk-confronting authors like Doten, a vanishing breed — exist to do the real work.―Teddy Wayne, The New York Times “As an illuminator of the dark logic of power, Mark Doten is peerless.”—Will Chancellor, Vol. 1 Brooklyn “One of our great contemporary satirical novelists.”—Emily Temple, Literary Hub “There are some bangers in here. The whole book is worth reading just for 'I'm Wide Awake It's Jumpman,’ which is a masterpiece."— Anthony Jeselnik, #NewBookTuesday “If I need a break and I want a good time to laugh at the whites, Mark Doten has me perfect.”—Traci Thomas, The Stacks “Whites offers both an ethnography and evisceration of white hegemony: from white supremacist school shooters and Q-anon conspirators, to white liberals in denial about the violence they perpetuate.... Doten’s searing critique is sharpened by humor, internet fluency, and self-awareness.... He positions whiteness as a condition of obliterative self-pity, one that cannot be expunged through efforts to be labeled as “one of the good ones.”―Electric Literature “[Doten] pulls just as few punches and experiments just as wildly in this collection of stories that attempt to capture the more demented and dismaying aspects of Americans at one another’s throats and terminally online.”―The Washington Post“Doten is a skilled satirist, and this collection matches the disorienting comic tenor of their previous novels, Trump Sky Alpha and&nbsp;The Infernal.”―Emma Alpern,&nbsp;Vulture"Whites is a work of wild genius, and Mark Doten is an outrageously gifted writer―who else could make me fall hopelessly in love with characters so wrongheaded and bloody minded, so sweetly clueless and dangerously stupid? These stories are stunningly beautiful, dark as hell, hilarious, heartbreaking, profane, profound, and (unfortunately!) very timely. This collection makes me feel lucky to be alive at this absurd moment, if only to witness Doten’s brilliant alchemy."―Kimberly King Parsons, author of&nbsp;We Were the Universe“I am forever in awe of Mark Doten, a virtuoso stylist and ventriloquist whose visionary satires are spurred by a moral urgency that marks him as my generation's Bernhard as well our Burroughs. Whites is a pathbreaking brain­deranger―blistering and prescient, sure, but let's not forget funny and dirty and extremely fucking weird.”―Justin Taylor, author of Reboot “Prescient about our current moment to an unsettling degree, Mark Doten’s Whites pushes satire to its farthest edge, tapping deeply into the id of American society and capturing something truly horrifying and real in the process.”―John Keene, author of Counternarratives “Mark Doten's writing reminds me of the thankless work of anti-fascist researchers who spend their time training their focus on what many of us would rather not think about or read, let alone immerse ourselves in. Nearly unreadable. Nearly unputdownable. Gray eyed and devastating in its focus, irresistible in its craft, this fucked up book turns irony back on itself and stabs into real heart.”―Madeline ffitch, author of Stay and Fight“Mark Doten finds beauty where the rest of us despair. I heart these stories, which crown our moment.”―Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus“Mark Doten’s work has always been brilliant, daring, and absolutely vital. Whites is a collection that could upend fiction, exhort nonfiction, and maybe even save us if enough of you agree.”―Dennis Cooper, author of I Wished “Doten delivers an uncompromising satire of contemporary white supremacy in this bold collection...Every character is painfully convincing in their anger, condescension, or meekness. It’s a wild and caustic ride.”―Publishers Weekly“These venomous, discomforting stories may soon feel ‘of their time,’ but what a time. Imagine the white malaise of Sam Lipsyte and the heightened satire of Gary Shteyngart shot through with a tab of Mark Leyner’s hyperstylized metafiction. Maybe that’s the right frame of mind to ask what white people are really made of, these days. A consciously caustic critique of white fragility that means to leave a mark.”―Kirkus Reviews WHITES: STORIES | NOVELS AND LIBRETTO | BIO&nbsp; WHITES STORIESLinks to excerpts, interviews, and full reviews&nbsp;here An Electric Lit Best Story Collection...