Did you go into this knowing it would carry something of the horror novel? It goes way beyond “dystopia.” At the same time, I hope it’s the scariest, most upsetting thing I read this year. Patrick Nathan: I think the best place to start is to thank you. Mark Doten’s post-apocalyptic new queer novel, Trump Sky Alpha, follows Rachel, a journalist on assignment to reconstruct the last moments of humor on what remains of the internet after 90% of the world’s population is destroyed by nuclear war.ĭoten recently spoke with author Patrick Nathan (whose own 2018 novel, Some Hell, is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award) about his new book, writing fiction that veers towards (and past) horror and dystopia in the age of Trump, Twitter anxieties, queer spaces in literature and on social media, and finding humor in the prospect of nuclear annihilation. Queering the Apocalypse: Mark Doten and Patrick Nathan in ConversationĪp“Yes, if there’s any hope in my book, it’s that even if the world’s blown up, it’s looks like it’s only us queers who survived.”
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