Tom Comitta

A Drunk Raccoon Passed Out in the Bathroom of a Virginia Liquor Store

Happy drunken raccoon Friday to all who celebrate

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

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!

Unwanted Reading: A Review of Tom Comitta’s ‘People’s Choice Literature’ The Sunday before I taught Beloved last spring, I sat on my couch wondering how I was going to convince a room full of second semester seniors that, before they left high school that June, they sho…

Had a lot of fun writing this review of @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s strange, moving, and hilarious book. Gets us to think, as I argue here, about the value of an aesthetic education—something we all should aim for as we teach our kids.

mid-theory.com/2025/12/04/u...

Thankful for books in general, but especially our authors and these recent/forthcoming titles.
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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 !

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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

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

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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

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 :)

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:

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

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

"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

📖 🎤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

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 :)

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

“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...

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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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!

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 | Kirkus Reviews Comitta’s found-text novella tells the story of one man’s peculiar quest.

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! 🤓🥸🤓

See you soon LA, NY, RI, MA, OH, and SF! 🤓

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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

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