# Tom Comitta

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The Beauty and Urgency of Nature Writing

Erica Berry, Tom Comitta, and Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, moderated by Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí Readers of fiction (too) often gloss over description of nature, but this session invites readers to really pay attention to nature writing, in all its marvelous variety. Set aside your human concerns for an ho…

9.5 Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)

In an essay about her recent book Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers seemed to mistake her engagement with ChatGPT as an uncritical embrace of large language…

Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)

In an essay about her recent book Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers seemed to mistake her engagement with ChatGPT as an uncritical embrace of large language…

Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)

In an essay about her recent book Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers seemed to mistake her engagement with ChatGPT as an uncritical embrace of large language…

Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)

In an essay about her recent book Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers seemed to mistake her engagement with ChatGPT as an uncritical embrace of large language…

Three Percent Podcast #198: Tom Comitta and "People's Choice Literature"

In this episode, Tom Comitta (The Nature Book, Patchwork) joins Chad to talk about their book(s) People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels, for which they used survey results, The Bestseller Code, various best-selling novels, and the OpenAI Playground to write two very enterta…

Paul Bradley Carr, Part 2

Bestselling author of The Confessions and bookstore owner Paul Bradley Carr returns for Part 2 of our conversation about artificial intelligence, the power of narratives, drinking blood, and whether vaping is cool (spoiler: it’s not). The AI chatbots kept trying to disrupt our Zoom session with Pau…

Training AI to Read Prose Fiction

In this episode, we talk about literature and artificial intelligence with two guests from the Department of English, Adrienne Ghaly and Tom Williams. They are using AI to read more than a century of fiction and find out what novels can tell us about biodiversity. The Collaboration Adrienne and Tom…