Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social
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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Thankful for books in general, but especially our authors and these recent/forthcoming titles.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Thankful for books in general, but especially our authors and these recent/forthcoming titles.
@alexhigley.bsky.social @mbsycamore.bsky.social @tomcomitta.bsky.social
@alexhigley.bsky.social @mbsycamore.bsky.social @tomcomitta.bsky.social
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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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
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
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
Can't wait to talk text collage and beyond with the brilliant @drbibliomane.bsky.social at the great @harvardbookstore.bsky.social !
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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!
September 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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
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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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!
September 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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!
See you tonight for the launch of Patchwork, NY friends! Doors at 6:30, reading at 7! xoxo
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social @gideonjacobs.bsky.social
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social @gideonjacobs.bsky.social
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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September 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
See you tonight for the launch of Patchwork, NY friends! Doors at 6:30, reading at 7! xoxo
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social @gideonjacobs.bsky.social
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social @gideonjacobs.bsky.social
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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
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
Thanks so much for having me. Can't wait!
September 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thanks so much for having me. Can't wait!
Thanks so much! Also have to get back to Berlin! Will say hi if/when I do :)
September 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thanks so much! Also have to get back to Berlin! Will say hi if/when I do :)
Omg I should dust that thing off and try it again. Maybe the last time I performed it was in Berlin??
September 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Omg I should dust that thing off and try it again. Maybe the last time I performed it was in Berlin??
And Providence and Kenyon College Friends! Full tour details here:
September 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And Providence and Kenyon College Friends! Full tour details here:
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
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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"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
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
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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September 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"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
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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📖 🎤There's still time to catch Tom Comitta on tour with PATCHWORK! @tomcomitta.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
📖 🎤There's still time to catch Tom Comitta on tour with PATCHWORK! @tomcomitta.bsky.social
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
Which is to say it was already bad before it became the National Endowment of Nationalist Slop
August 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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
Which is to say it was already bad before it became the National Endowment of Nationalist Slop
Might have incorrectly tagged you here, Eric! @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social Thank you again! :)
August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Might have incorrectly tagged you here, Eric! @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social Thank you again! :)
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 :)
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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 :)
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
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
Happiest of pub days to PATCHWORK, the latest from @tomcomitta.bsky.social ! Dive into this "fascinating," "madcap" adventure today!!!
August 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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
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
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
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Thank you to Ben & @libraryofamerica.bsky.social
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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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August 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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...
Thank you to Ben & @libraryofamerica.bsky.social
www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
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
Tom Comitta (@tomcomitta.bsky.social) discusses their new book PATCHWORK (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) with Eric Bies necessaryfiction.com/interviews/a...
August 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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
Thanks so much, Deidre!! So glad you're liking it. And can't wait for our events next month!
August 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thanks so much, Deidre!! So glad you're liking it. And can't wait for our events next month!
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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!
August 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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!
Patchwork also gets a nice Kirkus review! 🤓🥸 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
PATCHWORK | Kirkus Reviews
Comitta’s found-text novella tells the story of one man’s peculiar quest.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Patchwork also gets a nice Kirkus review! 🤓🥸 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
People’s Choice Literature just got this great Kirkus review out of the blue! 🤓🥸🤓
"[A]kin to Raymond Queneau’s *Exercises in Style*...but it also feels like a funhouse mirror of both airport fiction and experimental literature."
PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE, by Tom Comitta, reviewed in Kirkus Reviews. bit.ly/4m8G3Vx @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE, by Tom Comitta, reviewed in Kirkus Reviews. bit.ly/4m8G3Vx @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
People’s Choice Literature just got this great Kirkus review out of the blue! 🤓🥸🤓
August 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
August 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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