Rejection

Praise for Rejection:

‘Perversely funny and piercingly perceptive’ Financial Times

‘A hilarious, disgusting work of genius’ Interview

‘At once entertaining and acute … the stories capture the spirit of our doomscrolling age’ Guardian

‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time. So sharp and shrewd and entertaining’ David Nicholls, author of You Are Here

‘Tulathimutte captures a world in which we have too much communication and not nearly enough real human contact’ The Times

‘One of the funniest books I’ve read in years and a smart take on how the internet breaks our brains’ NPR

‘Divinely appalling … It is quite difficult to laugh so hard while also being goldfish-mouthed at its audacity’ Scotsman

‘Tulathimutte prises open and peers into the ugliest parts of the modern psyche … viscerally uncomfortable’ TLS

‘Explores modern loneliness and atomisation with startling lucidity’ Service95

‘Gutting … Cleverly satirizes a heartless world’ TIME

‘I found myself perversely heartened by [Tulathimutte’s] depraved genius … bleak, funny and utterly ruthless’ Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review

‘Obsessively readable, acerbic, Foster Wallace-inflected’ Vanity Fair

‘I have never laughed as hard reading a work of fiction, maybe ever … brain-meltingly good’ Wired

‘The prose-dial turned up to gasp-inducing Nabokov and Amis levels … one of the boldest works in recent memory’ Karan Mahajan, Granta

‘You will be crawling out of your skin from the very first words’ Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

‘Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one … Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

‘Fast and funny, a delirious convergence of the haptic and uncanny’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster

‘The funniest, darkest thing – like Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground meets Instagram’ St Vincent

Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n + 1, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.