Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ **Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary d coupage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.** To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious _Patchwork_, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective tissue that joins stories to themselves as well as to the grand history of storytelling itself. Celebrating the tropes and clich's of classical novels while simultaneously forging them into an original narrative, _Patchwork_ ultimately shows us that the stories produced by hundreds of writers past--celebrated or obscure, reverent or hilarious, factual or fantastical--may, in the hands of a master, become a single, seamless whole. **Tom Comitta** is the author of The Nature Book (Coffee House Press) and People's Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels (Columbia University Press). Their fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, and BOMB. Comitta works as a book designer and lives in Los Angeles with their partner, child, and pooch. **Joseph Mosconi** is a writer and programmer from California. He directs the Poetic Research Bureau and programs events at 2220 Arts+Archives and other places around Los Angeles.