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
"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": http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-the-platform-artificial-intelligence-aarthi-vadde-internet
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!
Aarthi Vadde@aarthivadde.bsky.social · 4w agoI was lucky enough to sit down for an extended interview about We the Platform with the endlessly creative @tomcomitta.bsky.social. We talked about experimental writing, the early days of the Web, mail art, and escaping the doom loop around literary study. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-t...
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.+
“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...
Patchwork by Tom Comitta
Reviewed by Eric Bies
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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
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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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
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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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
@kenoma.bsky.social · 2mo agoCultural Critique's special issue on "Marxism, Form, and Futurity" now up online, essays by @annakornbluh.bsky.social @kqandrews.bsky.social @cphiliphaines.bsky.social and then some muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283
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...
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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Where author Tom Comitta meets and interviews Jeff Tweedy.⭐
Tom Comitta@tomcomitta.bsky.social · 7mo ago20 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...
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...
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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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...
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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👇 excellent article that we were very pleased to published ♻️
Tom Comitta@tomcomitta.bsky.social · 7mo agoNot 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...
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...
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....
doi.org
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!
The first album I can remember buying, at age 10. No notes
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 9mo agopost a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. 1994 is the year that made me, in no small part due to Under the Pink.
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:
Happy drunken raccoon Friday to all who celebrate
A Drunk Raccoon Passed Out in the Bathroom of a Virginia Liquor Store
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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!
Mid Theory Collective@mid-theory.bsky.social · 10mo agoFor MTC, John Downes-Angus reviews Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE and reflects on his experiences as a high school English teacher where on the daily he makes a case for reading the strange, the extreme, the unwanted—for the chance to accept "reading’s complicated gift to us."
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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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
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · last yr.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!
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
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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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
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
"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
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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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
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · last yr.Oh. Fun times.
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
Coffee House Press@coffeehousepress.bsky.social · last yr.Happiest of pub days to PATCHWORK, the latest from @tomcomitta.bsky.social ! Dive into this "fascinating," "madcap" adventure today!!!
