Zell Visiting Writers Series: Distinguished Writer in Residence Tony Tulathimutte – Reading and Q&A
Join us in welcoming writer Tony Tulathimutte for a reading and Q&A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with UMMA, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature.
Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens, which was called “the first great Millennial novel” by New York Magazine after its publication in 2016 and Rejection, published in 2024.
Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA’s Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.
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Tony Tulathimutte
Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. A graduate of Stanford University’s Symbolic Systems program, he took creative writing classes with Adam Johnson, ZZ Packer, and Elizabeth Tallent. After graduating, he published a handful of stories, one of which won an O. Henry Award, as he worked for a small Bay Area UX firm. He got accepted to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop the same week he was laid off in 2010.
At Iowa he finished most of a draft of his debut novel Private Citizens, which was called “the first great Millennial novel” by New York Magazine after its publication in 2016, and received a Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2017 he founded CRIT, an independent class he teaches out of his apartment in Brooklyn, whose alumni have gone on to publish 34 books to date. He has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Believer, Playboy, The Nation, and others.
Tony’s second book is a novel-in-stories, Rejection, published in 2024. Rejection has been translated into seven languages, and was nominated for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, and the Clark Prize, and received a Jack Galef Literary Arts award. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
SUPPORT
The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.