On Saturday June 7th at noon, author Tom Comitta will discuss their new book People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted & Unwanted Novels on the Edendale Library Zoom at 11 a.m. PST with legendary UK sound collage artist Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us.
Yesterday Tom and the book got a massive writeup in the New York Times!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/books/review/peoples-choice-literature-tom-comitta.html
Tom based the two halves of People’s Choice Literature on a nationwide poll of the elements that Americans claim to prefer most in a novel, as well as those they like least. Giving the people exactly what they want, The Most Wanted Novel is a fast-paced thriller evoking page-turners by Dan Brown and David Baldacci, in which a California woman teams up with a hunky FBI agent (with a tragic past) to solve her brother’s kidnapping, getting drawn ever deeper into a tech tycoon’s apocalyptic ambitions. Then, in an epic synthesis of what nobody wants, The Most Unwanted Novel is an epistolary Christmas novel set on a near-future Mars, where elderly aristocratic tennis players scour the globe for lost love, venturing from arctic wastelands to the dark caverns of the macabre, featuring sentient robots, talking animals, and a hundred-page collection of horror stories along the way. A wild ride!