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Tom Comitta

@tomcomitta.bsky.social
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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
Thank you to @sayanniething.bsky.social and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social !!
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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
Thank you to Daniela Soberman and @artillerymag.bsky.social !!!
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@artillerymag.bsky.social
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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 · 01/07/2026
Also @drbibliomane.bsky.social I’ve been sitting on an email to you for at least a month! About a sound/music piece you directly inspired. Sorry for the teaser trailer but I need to get the right audio recording of it before I write. Coming soon to an email inbox near you!
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I think we might need to throw up a second bat signal to Aarthi Vadde! Is this excerpt from her We the Platform? My interview with her about that book is forthcoming! @aarthivadde.bsky.social
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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
Much love to @coffeehousepress.bsky.social and @lizziedavis.bsky.social
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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
cup.columbia.edu/book/peoples... @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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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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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Such a brilliant essay, John. So grateful for your thoughts here and the insight into practical ways to keep literature and difficult books alive. Another reminder of how much I’d like to get back to teaching. Sending warmth and admiration from LA
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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
Thanks so much for having me. Can't wait!
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Thanks so much! Also have to get back to Berlin! Will say hi if/when I do :)
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Omg I should dust that thing off and try it again. Maybe the last time I performed it was in Berlin??
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And Providence and Kenyon College Friends! Full tour details here:
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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
Might have incorrectly tagged you here, Eric! @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social Thank you again! :)
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Third novel published, but second written. If you want to read them in the order they were created, it's The Nature Book then Patchwork then People's Choice Literature :)
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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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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thanks so much, Deidre!! So glad you're liking it. And can't wait for our events next month!
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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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