A novel on the political madness of our time and the Internet's deep workings, by the author of The Infernal One year after the president has plunged the world into nuclear war, a journalist takes refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. On assignment, she documents internet humor at the end of the world, hoping along the way to find the final resting place of her wife and daughter. What she uncovers, hidden amid spiraling memes and twitter jokes in an archive of the internet's remnants, are references to an enigmatic figure known only as Birdcrash, who may hold the key to an uncertain future.
Author
Mark Doten was born in Minnesota in 1978. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, The Believer, and New York magazine. He wrote the libretto for The Source, a work of musical theater about Chelsea Manning and Wikileaks, with music by Ted Hearne, which had its world premiere at BAM's Next Wave Festival in October 2014, and was named one of the best classical vocal pieces of the year by The New York Times. He attended Macalester College and Columbia University and is the recipient of fellowships from Columbia and the MacDowell Colony. The literary fiction editor at Soho Press, he lives in Brooklyn. His first novel, The Infernal, was published by Graywolf Press in February 2015.
