RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksA different, more expansive way to conceive of the physical act of writing; understanding the process allows you to imagine what’s been cut out, rearranged, and, most interestingly, what inspired the work ... Reading The Nature Book alongside a more traditional novel (in this case, any novel concerned with people) cultivates a kinship between the wild and the societal. Nature in Comitta’s novel is sinister, joyful, cruel, clumsy, and daring ... Comitta’s nature contains multitudes; it is mercurial and mysterious ... Comitta centers you in the reading experience, not just demanding your labor of comprehension at the languorous, long sentence level, but also requiring your attention and patience to stay with writing that doesn’t hurry, and characters...whose rich interiority and nuanced observations replace a rapid plot ... The Nature Book is littered with shiny facts nestled in tender anecdotes on the subject of nature. It’s informative as much as it is entertaining ... Poets and prose writers will find the novel instructive from a craft perspective. The language constructs a voice and tone that are consistently lush and inspiring, imagistic and lyrical ... 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.
Sam Pink
RaveBOMBAs in Pink’s previous books, the characters in his latest brim with unflinching idiosyncrasies and experience muted epiphanies ... his distinctive candor is captivating, profound, and personal ... his stories have an effortless credence. The beauty of writing people from personal experience is that you’ll neither fetishize nor pity them. In his latest collection, Pink bares his all—teeth and heart—and it’s a sight to behold.
