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Tom Comitta

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Author of The Nature Book and two others coming in 2025: Patchwork (Coffee House) and People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted & Unwanted Novels (Columbia U Press). they/them linktr.ee/tomcomitta

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The arts and humanities are a small piece of the AI pie, but they are our piece of the pie." Tom Comitta talks to @aarthivadde.bsky.social about "We the Platform": lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-the-…
The cover of We the Platform
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Such a thrill to dive into We the Platform and the many modes of literary Web 2.0 with @aarthivadde.bsky.social : from fan fic to icon novels to punk anti-fiction to fiction as institutional critique!
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Orange County Review of Books @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“PATCHWORK is precisely what it sounds like: a densely woven quilt of a book composed entirely of other author’s sentences.” Eric Bies reviews the book by @tomcomitta.bsky.social (from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social). ocreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/copy-termi...
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Patchwork by Tom Comitta
Reviewed by Eric Bies
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Tfw you start writing a short story from the perspective of the assistant fired from Christian Marclay’s The Clock for sourcing too many horror films & then suddenly @lacma.org is screening it again
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The Horror of Time - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticism
In 2012, Daniel Zalewski profiled Christian Marclay and The Clock (2010) in The New Yorker. The piece includes a single, throwaway reference to an assistant: “One fellow, who offered little but gunsho...
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Tfw you start writing a short story from the perspective of the assistant fired from Christian Marclay’s The Clock for sourcing too many horror films & then suddenly @lacma.org is screening it again
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The Horror of Time - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticism
In 2012, Daniel Zalewski profiled Christian Marclay and The Clock (2010) in The New Yorker. The piece includes a single, throwaway reference to an assistant: “One fellow, who offered little but gunsho...
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Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Excited to see the new issue of Cultural Critique! Going to start with Caren Irr on @tomcomitta.bsky.social The Nature Book and metabolic rift
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
20 years ago I was a singer-songwriter writing Wilco knock offs in my dorm room. 2 months ago I got to meet Jeff Tweedy and ask him everything about artmaking and life that I could think of. Thank you to Ben Samuel and @bombmag.bsky.social for making it happen bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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BOMB Magazine | Jeff Tweedy by Tom Comitta
After the US tour for his solo triple album, Twilight Override , the lead vocalist and guitarist of Wilco speaks to the power of finding joy, embracing…
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Where author Tom Comitta meets and interviews Jeff Tweedy.⭐
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
20 years ago I was a singer-songwriter writing Wilco knock offs in my dorm room. 2 months ago I got to meet Jeff Tweedy and ask him everything about artmaking and life that I could think of. Thank you to Ben Samuel and @bombmag.bsky.social for making it happen bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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BOMB Magazine | Jeff Tweedy by Tom Comitta
After the US tour for his solo triple album, Twilight Override , the lead vocalist and guitarist of Wilco speaks to the power of finding joy, embracing…
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Not the best beach reading during this LA heatwave but very grateful for this first scholarly intro to my writing by Michael Kalisch. He even went into the night novels! & happy 3rd birthday to The Nature Book 🥳 doi.org/10.16995/c21...
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The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta's <em>The Nature Book </em>(2023)
This essay offers an introduction to the work of Tom Comitta and a reading of their 2023 novel, The Nature Book, a citational fiction composed entirely of nature descriptions copied from other novels....
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
👇 excellent article that we were very pleased to published ♻️
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Not the best beach reading during this LA heatwave but very grateful for this first scholarly intro to my writing by Michael Kalisch. He even went into the night novels! & happy 3rd birthday to The Nature Book 🥳 doi.org/10.16995/c21...
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The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta's <em>The Nature Book </em>(2023)
This essay offers an introduction to the work of Tom Comitta and a reading of their 2023 novel, The Nature Book, a citational fiction composed entirely of nature descriptions copied from other novels....
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Highly recommend Bi Gan’s Resurrection if it's playing near you. The most beautiful brilliant movie of 2025 imo. Can't believe it's not getting more attention. I've seen it twice and will see it at least twice more. Hi!
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The first album I can remember buying, at age 10. No notes
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
For all of your gag-gifting-meets-seriously-dumb-good-bad-great holiday reading needs, here’s a friendly reminder that The Most Unwanted Novel is the Christmas on Mars novel your loved ones have never been waiting for🎄 You can get it for 20% off with the code GIFTS below through the 31st:
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Happy drunken raccoon Friday to all who celebrate
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A Drunk Raccoon Passed Out in the Bathroom of a Virginia Liquor Store
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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
For @mid-theory.bsky.social, @johndownesangus.bsky.social wrote about @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s awesome book at @columbiaup.bsky.social! It was so fun to edit this piece!
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thankful for books in general, but especially our authors and these recent/forthcoming titles. @alexhigley.bsky.social @mbsycamore.bsky.social @tomcomitta.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
See you tonight, Boston and Cambridge! Can't wait to talk text collage and beyond with the brilliant @drbibliomane.bsky.social at the great @harvardbookstore.bsky.social ! @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!
Poster showing Tom Comitta (big photo) and Deidre Lynch (smaller one) and the covers of their two new novels: Patchwork and People's Choice Literature. Monday, September 29th, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
See you tonight for the launch of Patchwork, NY friends! Doors at 6:30, reading at 7! xoxo @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @gideonjacobs.bsky.social
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Tom Comitta presents Patchwork, ft. Gideon Jacobs
"This is insane. But insanity has always played an innervating role in the Novel." —Sergio de la Pava, author of Lost Empress
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Next week kicks off the East Coast Patchwork tour featuring @drbibliomane.bsky.social and @gideonjacobs.bsky.social . See you soon, New York and Boston friends! @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Next week kicks off the East Coast Patchwork tour featuring @drbibliomane.bsky.social and @gideonjacobs.bsky.social . See you soon, New York and Boston friends! @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"Unusual and brilliant." -- Jonathan Lethem Looking for a crime novel and/or experimental fiction? Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS has them both! bit.ly/41DYbPu @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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People's Choice Literature | Columbia University Press
What do Americans truly want in a novel? What would it look like if their preferences and aversions materialized in book form? In People’s Choice Literatur... | CUP
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
📖 🎤There's still time to catch Tom Comitta on tour with PATCHWORK! @tomcomitta.bsky.social
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Randomly did some research yesterday and found that in 2004 France gave 6 billion euro to the arts; USA gave 116 million. Which is to say it was already bad before it became the National Endowment of Nationalist Slop
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Today my third novel, Patchwork, is released into the world! Thank you to the incredible team at @coffeehousepress.bsky.social & my brilliant editor @lizziedavis.bsky.social And to @sebastiancastillo.bsky.social, Paul Yoon, Alyssa Quinn, & Sergio De La Pava for your generous blurbs! xoxoxo
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Probably my favorite essay I've written this year. Mainly on The Missing Pieces by Henri Lefebvre (@semiotexte.bsky.social) + my own brief list of literary and artistic gaps. Might keep adding to this list... Thank you to Ben & @libraryofamerica.bsky.social www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
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“Categories of Erasure”: Tom Comitta on the Books That Shaped Patchwork, Their New Novella-in-Fragments - Library of America
Practitioners of the cut-up have long stitched superficially disparate literatures together, flattening differences and drawing out unexpected points of connection. Now, to the newspaper insertions of...
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Really enjoyed this handwritten, snail mail interview with @ericbies.bsky.social for @necessaryfiction.com . Maybe the most personal public conversation I've had yet? Also very grateful for Eric's generous introduction
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
It's August 19th! So happy publication day to Patchwork, Tom Comitta's latest literary supercut--an exuberant and Shandean escapade, a celebration of the history of fiction in all its bounty, and a delightful master class on narrative desire. And there is a snuffbox too!
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Patchwork also gets a nice Kirkus review! 🤓🥸 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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PATCHWORK | Kirkus Reviews
Comitta’s found-text novella tells the story of one man’s peculiar quest.
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
People’s Choice Literature just got this great Kirkus review out of the blue! 🤓🥸🤓
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
See you soon LA, NY, RI, MA, OH, and SF! 🤓 @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
One week until Patchwork is out in the world, and I’m blown away by this lovely review by @maorthofer.bsky.social : www.complete-review.com/reviews/usx/... @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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JP @jpa6.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
What a fun book! Every time I recognized one of the sources, I got a little jolt of joy. #booksky @tomcomitta.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In the mail: pleased to see ARC of @tomcomitta.bsky.social 's 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, coming soon from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social coffeehousepress.org/products/pat... (Surprised his 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝐶ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ( www.complete-review.com/reviews/usx/... ) hasn't been more widely covered yet.)
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Patchwork
Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary découpage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller,
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Last day to get Patchwork, The Nature Book, and all @coffeehousepress.bsky.social books 25% off! coffeehousepress.org/collections/...
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Patchwork
Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary découpage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller,
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Made a whole book intro video but this outtake was better
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Every so often someone must wake up and realize that they voted to make a pedophile rapist the most powerful person in the world and he is using that power to steal everything he can and crush every decent person who opposes him. Maybe that’s just too hard to accept so they pretend not to understand
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
From the forthcoming PATCHWORK by Tom Comitta, out on August 19th. @tomcomitta.bsky.social
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our next two stunning releases... 🪡 PATCHWORK by Tom Comitta 8/19/25 🏚️HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman 9/9/25 @tomcomitta.bsky.social
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Wonderful to see PATCHWORK and HELEN OF NOWEHERE on this lovely list. Thanks to The Millions! @tomcomitta.bsky.social themillions.com/2025/07/the-...
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The Millions’ Great Summer 2025 Book Preview
Here you’ll find just over 100 titles out this summer that we’re excited about here at The Millions.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
ICYMI: Tom Comitta talks with Chad Post about storytelling, data-driven novels, and of course his books, PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE and PATCHWORK. @tomcomitta.bsky.social @chadwpost.bsky.social @openletterbooks.bsky.social threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/three-perc...
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Three Percent Podcast #198: Tom Comitta and "People's Choice Literature"
Listen now | A look at two—or three?—data-driven novels by a master of collage literature.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This is correct. We need to treat ICE agents the way that Massachusetts in the 1850s treated slave-catchers. Especially since they're about to quintuple (or so) the number of ICE agents.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
So great to read this very thoughtful review by Laura Miller in @slate.com of Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS. bit.ly/3GoXRfB @lauramille.bsky.social @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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One Ingenious Author Focus-Grouped His New Novel. The Results Are Hilarious.
Tom Comitta asked 1,045 Americans what they like and don’t like in their books. Then he wrote the books.
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Loved chatting with @chadwpost.bsky.social about People’s Choice for the Three Percent Podcast Here’s the video version which includes the full infographic presentation spectacular: youtu.be/xOE9k9n3Sdo @openletterbooks.bsky.social
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"People's Choice Literature" by Tom Comitta
YouTube video by Two Month Review
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