Tom Comitta

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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Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

LA friends! You're invited to the premiere of my first music project in a decade, Folk Horror = folk music + folk horror themes. 10/27 at 8 pm at @2220arts.bsky.social. With SEEKERS (Jessica Hundley and Jed Maheu) transmuting tarot cards into music. 👻🎻 dice.fm/partner/tick...

dice.fmAll Hallows' Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve: SEEKERS + Tom Comitta Tickets | 27 Oct | 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles | DICEA night of folk horror plumbed via ritual, performance and song, with SEEKERS, Tom Comitta and others. Before it was Halloween it was Samhain, a weeklong fe...
Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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

I 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...

lareviewofbooks.orgLiterary Web 2.0 | Los Angeles Review of BooksIs it the end of reading or a brand-new era?

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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

artillerymag.comThe Horror of Time - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticismIn 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

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@kenoma.bsky.social

Cultural 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

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Tom Comitta
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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...

bombmagazine.orgBOMB Magazine | Jeff Tweedy by Tom ComittaAfter 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
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Where author Tom Comitta meets and interviews Jeff Tweedy.⭐

Tom Comitta@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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...

bombmagazine.orgBOMB Magazine | Jeff Tweedy by Tom ComittaAfter 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…
Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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...

bombmagazine.orgBOMB Magazine | Jeff Tweedy by Tom ComittaAfter 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

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...

doi.orgThe 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
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👇 excellent article that we were very pleased to published ♻️

Tom Comitta@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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...

doi.orgThe 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....
Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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!

Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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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Jay Shelat
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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

For 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."

mid-theory.comUnwanted 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…

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Philip Leventhal
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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

bit.lyPeople's Choice Literature | Columbia University PressWhat 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
Tom Comitta
@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

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Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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

Happiest of pub days to PATCHWORK, the latest from @tomcomitta.bsky.social ! Dive into this "fascinating," "madcap" adventure today!!!

Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

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...

loa.org“Categories of Erasure”: Tom Comitta on the Books That Shaped Patchwork, Their New Novella-in-Fragments - Library of AmericaPractitioners 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...
Tom Comitta
@tomcomitta.bsky.social

People’s Choice Literature just got this great Kirkus review out of the blue! 🤓🥸🤓

Philip Leventhal@philipleventhal.bsky.social

"[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

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M.A.Orthofer
@maorthofer.bsky.social

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.)

coffeehousepress.orgPatchworkTom 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,