{"product_id":"peoples-choice-literature-the-most-wanted-and-unwanted-novels-hardcover","title":"People's Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Comitta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do Americans truly want in a novel? What would it look like if their preferences and aversions materialized in book form? In \u003ci\u003ePeople's Choice Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, Tom Comitta has taken up this challenge, writing two groundbreaking novels based on a nationwide poll about literary taste--one featuring the story elements Americans most desire and another containing everything Americans despise. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Most Wanted Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is a fast-paced thriller evoking page-turners by Dan Brown, David Baldacci, and Janet Evanovich. It follows a California woman pulled into a tech tycoon's apocalyptic ambitions after her brother's kidnapping, teaming up with a hunky FBI agent with a tragic past. \u003ci\u003eThe Most Unwanted Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-bending doorstopper: an epistolary Christmas novel set on a near-future Mars, where elderly aristocratic tennis players scour the globe for lost love, venturing from the coldest of arctic wastelands to the darkest caverns of the macabre. Variously recalling Kathy Acker, César Aira, and Philip K. Dick, it features sentient robots, talking animals, and a hundred-page collection of horror stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople's Choice Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by the artists Komar and Melamid, who created two now-infamous paintings based on opinion polling. A similar experiment by Dave Soldier produced \"The Most Wanted Song\" and \"The Most Unwanted Song.\" Comitta has adapted these methods to fiction, drawing on readers' preferences about everything from genre to verb tense to characters' identity, and incorporating machine learning data and passages written in collaboration with a large language model. Audacious and shockingly entertaining, \u003ci\u003ePeople's Choice Literature\u003c\/i\u003e also asks big questions about taste, authorship, and the notion of \"good writing.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Comitta is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Nature Book\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePatchwork\u003c\/i\u003e. Their short fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBomb\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 584\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45525394391142,"sku":"9780231219273","price":194.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/L6_sHzpdfT9780231219273.webp?v=1776595834","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/peoples-choice-literature-the-most-wanted-and-unwanted-novels-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}