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Tom Comitta

@tomcomitta

Author of People’s Choice Literature (Columbia University Press, 2025), Patchwork (Coffee House Press, ‘25) & The Nature Book. (they/them)

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Philip Leventhal (@philipleventhal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tomorrow at 2 pm (EST)! Tom Comitta will talk about his new book, PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE w/ legendary sound collage artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) on the Edendale Library Zoom! bit.ly/4kqSZ8m Tom Comitta @columbiaup

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Come have 11 am PT lunch, 2 pm ET linner, and 7 pm UK time dinner with us 🍕🍔🌮 Vicki Bennett/People Like Us will screen part of her new film, “The Library of Babel”!!

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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

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
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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 🤓

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“"The Most Unwanted Novel’ is also the culmination of a tandem literary journey I’ve been on for almost two decades: the fine art of bad writing." Dan Sinykin and Tom Comitta talk "People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-fi…

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“He was on fire, writing like his death depended on it.” —Tom Comitta The devil works hard in this excerpt from Tom Comitta’s satirical novel, PEOPLE’S CHOICE LITERATURE (Columbia University Press) tinyurl.com/35m958kk

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Tomorrow at 6 pm, join @tomcomitta as he talks about his new book (recently featured in the The New York Times!), PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS w/ Liza St. James at Printed Matter in NYC. tinyurl.com/4aww262f @columbiaup

Tomorrow at 6 pm, join @tomcomitta as he talks about his new book (recently featured in the <a href="/nytimes/">The New York Times</a>!), PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED &amp; UNWANTED NOVELS w/ <a href="/lizastjames/">Liza St. James</a> at Printed Matter in NYC. tinyurl.com/4aww262f @columbiaup
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"He typed furiously, crushing letters, then full words into the quivering hardware before him. He was on fire, writing like his death depended on it." BOMB Magazine excerpts PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS, by @tomcomitta. tinyurl.com/tb5b3zfk

"He typed furiously, crushing letters, then full words into the quivering hardware before him. He was on fire, writing like his death depended on it."

<a href="/BOMBmagazine/">BOMB Magazine</a> excerpts PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED &amp; UNWANTED NOVELS, by @tomcomitta. tinyurl.com/tb5b3zfk
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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

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
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You can now read most of the introduction to CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY—out in October from Princeton UP—as a preview Johanna Winant press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Philip Leventhal (@philipleventhal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So great to read this very thoughtful review by Laura Miller in Slate of Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS. bit.ly/3GoXRfB Tom Comitta Columbia University Press

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

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Agree! These days I've been happily laboring in the trenches of experimental fiction, so I also appreciated Tom Comitta's great list here: electricliterature.com/the-10-most-ex…. (Renee Gladman, Hurrah!)

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Last day to get Patchwork, The Nature Book, and all Coffee House Press books 25% off! coffeehousepress.org/collections/fi…