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

📖 🎤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

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

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...

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

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...

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

See you soon LA, NY, RI, MA, OH, and SF! 🤓 @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

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

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.)

Last day to get Patchwork, The Nature Book, and all @coffeehousepress.bsky.social books 25% off! coffeehousepress.org/collections/...

Made a whole book intro video but this outtake was better

Every so often someone must wake up and realize that they voted to make a pedophile rapist the most powerful person in the world and he is using that power to steal everything he can and crush every decent person who opposes him. Maybe that’s just too hard to accept so they pretend not to understand

From the forthcoming PATCHWORK by Tom Comitta, out on August 19th. @tomcomitta.bsky.social

Our next two stunning releases... 🪡 PATCHWORK by Tom Comitta 8/19/25 🏚️HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman 9/9/25 @tomcomitta.bsky.social

Wonderful to see PATCHWORK and HELEN OF NOWEHERE on this lovely list. Thanks to The Millions! @tomcomitta.bsky.social themillions.com/2025/07/the-...

ICYMI: Tom Comitta talks with Chad Post about storytelling, data-driven novels, and of course his books, PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE and PATCHWORK. @tomcomitta.bsky.social @chadwpost.bsky.social @openletterbooks.bsky.social threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/three-perc...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This is correct. We need to treat ICE agents the way that Massachusetts in the 1850s treated slave-catchers. Especially since they're about to quintuple (or so) the number of ICE agents.

So great to read this very thoughtful review by Laura Miller in @slate.com of Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS. bit.ly/3GoXRfB @lauramille.bsky.social @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Loved chatting with @chadwpost.bsky.social about People’s Choice for the Three Percent Podcast Here’s the video version which includes the full infographic presentation spectacular: youtu.be/xOE9k9n3Sdo @openletterbooks.bsky.social

Chad Post talks to Tom Comitta about his new book, PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE, collage literature, and a host of other exciting subjects. Check out the Three Percent podcast! @openletterbooks.bsky.social @tomcomitta.bsky.social @chadwpost.bsky.social threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/three-perc...

Slate reviewed People’s Choice Literature and it’s a rave 😮🥸 slate.com/culture/2025... @slate.com

A few of my fave novels in this fun, thoughtful list: Blood & Guts in High School, Castle Faggot, Reader's Block

Some of my thoughts and recommendations on “extreme fiction” in Electric Literature 🏂

Just a few forthcoming books we're EXTREMELY excited about...(and you should be to) PATCHWORK by Tom Comitta coming 8/19/25 💥 @tomcomitta.bsky.social

Very grateful to be in the Book Review today. Young poet me wouldn’t believe it. Even me two months ago and today doesn’t

Okay yeah this is one of the funniest reading experiences I’ve had in a while. Was laughing out loud on the train at italicized internal thoughts and the use of Ford Fusion. But I also wanna know what happens? (Thanks @tomcomitta.bsky.social for the laughs/ @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social for sharing)

The most unwanted wanted novels

Tonight! At 6 pm, join @tomcomitta.bsky.social as he talks about his new book (recently featured in the @nytimes.com), PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS w/ @lizastjames.bsky.social at Printed Matter in NYC. tinyurl.com/4aww262f @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 6 pm, join @tomcomitta.bsky.social as he talks about his new book (recently featured in the @nytimes.com!), PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE w/ @lizastjames.bsky.social at Printed Matter in NYC. tinyurl.com/4aww262f @columbiaup.bsky.social

“He was on fire, writing like his death depended on it.” —Tom Comitta The devil works hard in this excerpt from @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s satirical novel, PEOPLE’S CHOICE LITERATURE (@columbiaup.bsky.social‬)

This Thusday at 6 pm, join Tom Comitta as he talks about his new book (recently featured in the @nytimes.com!), PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS w/ @lizastjames.bsky.social at Printed Matter in NYC. tinyurl.com/4aww262f @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Today!! 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm UK! DM for Zoom link!

Since this is where we’re at, I’d like to submit an alternate nickname to the uninspired “Mediocre Musk”: Noel Skum Aka the christmassy anagram for that appears in The Most Unwanted Novel 🤓

What are you doing for lunch, linner, or dinner tomorrow? Come have a Zoom meal with me and Vicki Bennett/People Like Us at our LA Public Library event! Vicki is showing part of her new video, “The Library of Babel,” and I’m bringing the infographics. DM for the zoom link

The introduction—along with all the data and some infographics—to People’s Choice Literature in @literaryhub.bsky.social today!

Dan Sinykin and I had way too much fun in what might be the definitive conversation about People’s Choice. Thank you to Dan for bringing such great energy and brilliance and to Ellie for such keen editing lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

In an excerpt from PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE, published in @literaryhub.bsky.social, Tom Comitta shares what topics (see image below), styles, and even the amount of violence that Americans want in their novels. tinyurl.com/3z7wskbh @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Dan Sinykin and I had way too much fun in what might be the definitive conversation about People’s Choice. Thank you to Dan for bringing such great energy and brilliance and to Ellie for such keen editing lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Now you, yes you can read part of People’s Choice for the low low price of $0!* Thank you for the brilliant introduction, @willchance.bsky.social !! brooklynrail.org/2025/06/fict...

"Tom Comitta has written what may become the definitive time capsule of our debased American literary minds." Read an excerpt published in *The Brooklyn Rail* from "The Most Unwanted Novel" section of PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE, by @tomcomitta.bsky.social: bit.ly/43SiSXN @columbiaup.bsky.social

The introduction—along with all the data and some infographics—to People’s Choice Literature in @literaryhub.bsky.social today!