Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Rejection (2024), an acclaimed story collection that explores the many ways of being rejected— by lovers, friends, housemates, society, even oneself. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, the book was also named a New York Times Best Book of the Year.

Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Giles Harvey said of Tulathimutte, “A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing book . . . an incandescent satire.”

Tulathimutte is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has written for The New York Times, VICE, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, N+1, The New Republic, The Believer, Playboy, The Paris Review, and others. He has received a 2017 Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and appeared as a guest on "Late Night with Seth Meyers."

This conversation is free and open to the public. Books will be for sale and a signing will follow the conversation.

Presented by the NYS Writers Institute. Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Writing & Critical Inquiry Program (WCI), the English Department’s Creative Writing Program and Young Writers Project, and the Honors College.