Tough book. Hard to read at points. Like Sally Rooney’s books, it makes me glad, so glad, to be old, to have had a childhood without an all-encompassing computer in my pocket.

Quote, which I could build an entire week in seminar around:

Tulathimutte, Tony. Rejection: Fiction. First edition. New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.