The Crown Heights apartment of Tony Tulathimutte, whose second novel, Rejection, was published last month, recently underwent a transformation. “I bought a table,” he tells me.
His 2016 debut novel, Private Citizens, earned him a Whiting Award, a blurb from Jonathan Franzen, and a claim to “the first great millennial novel.” But this succès d’estime did not bring a stable income. Tired of ad hoc teaching jobs, in 2017 Tulathimutte founded Crit, a writing workshop hosted in his living room.
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