"Comitta has written a book that combines every writer and every book, but by isolating and exploring the elements that stories fundamentally share with one another." --Literary Hub

"Patchwork is not just a novel or an absurdist work of art. It is a reminder that despite the chaos of it all, human beings will always be connected with one another." --Sky Cross, The Columbia Review

"When the lights go dark, I take comfort in knowing we will always have Tom Comitta's art. Their new book, Patchwork, is quite simply wondrous: it's like the love child of a Yorgos Lanthimos film and Anne Carson's poems, with a wild corner of a Hieronymous Bosch painting peering over your shoulder. Every page is filled with enormous heartbreak and danger but also with enormous love and technicolor--a book that flies into your dreams and plucks magic from deep down." --Paul Yoon, author of The Hive and the Honey

"This is insane. But insanity has always played an innervating role in the Novel. Tom Comitta builds a kind of disorienting beauty out of the madness, the emergent creation is profoundly alive." --Sergio de la Pava, author of Lost Empress

"A rollicking collage, an Oulipian page-turner, a surrealist's sojourn through the mazy corridors of literary history. Splicing together gothic, noir, mystery, horror, and adventure genres, Patchwork is a cubist painting of a book whose polyvocal pyrotechnics transform the hero's journey into a bibliophile's dreamscape escapade. Ludic, lively, and laugh-out-loud funny, Comitta's latest cements their position at the forefront of contemporary literary collage." --Alyssa Quinn, author of Habilis

"Patchwork is a dazzling performance of assemblage, of decoupage--a vertiginous literature of the archive. As with The Nature Book, Tom Comitta refashions our extant texts towards ecstatic and fresh possibilities. A Queneau for our time." --Sebastian Castillo, author of Salmon

Past Praise:

Praise for The Nature Book
Independent Book Review, "Best Books We Read in 2023"

"Symphonic, both in its structure--four movements, the third of which is the most distinct and the last of which references the first and goes out in a brilliant burst--and in the way language echoes, builds, works its accretive magic. Seeing the world like this, without us, traversed in a way we could never traverse it in our human bodies, is a powerful and exhilarating experience." --Cara Blue Adams, The New Yorker

"A marvel of textual collation on a par with Christian Marclay's supercut film 'The Clock.' It's remarkable how coherently the narrative reads, despite its countless patchwork pieces, a testament not only to Comitta's diligence but to the like minded ways that novelists have tended to write about natural phenomena like snowfall or sunrise." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

"A meditative, lush narrative on the relationship between time and nature. You'll be hard-pressed to find another book with as verdant an archive of beautiful descriptive sentences as the one contained in The Nature Book." --Darina Sikmashvili, Los Angeles Review of Books

"A magnum opus about the planet using only found text. A dynamic and singular reading experience." --Kirkus, starred review

"It's all this different, beautiful language synthesized into one narrative that mostly describes the environments you're passing through. I think it's amazing." --Jeff Tweedy of Wilco