On Wednesday, September 25, join n+1 contributors Emily Witt and Tony Tulathimutte for a discussion of their new books, Health and Safety(Pantheon) and Rejection (William Morrow). Both books are available for preorderfrom the n+1 bookstore and will be published in September.

The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Beer and wine will be available for purchase, as well as copies of the books. The n+1 office is wheelchair accessible.

RSVP here.

Wednesday, September 25
7 PM
n+1 office
37 Greenpoint Ave #316
Brooklyn

Praise for Health and Safety

“There are moments in this book when Witt elevates writing about altered states of consciousness to something akin to the most brilliant art criticism I’ve ever read in my life. With shocking precision and honesty, she maps zones of transcendence and devastation, freedom and repression, both in the individual mind and in the collective experience of America. Health and  Safety is a tribute to the profound and radical potential in substances that insist on bringing another world into being, and an acute, heartbroken reckoning with their limits, too.” —Jia Tolentino

“Health and Safety is a foreboding and panoramic account of a subculture, relationship, and country in crisis. Radical, lucid, and harrowing.” —Anna Wiener

“No one writes about contemporary American life—about drugs, sex, dating, madness—with as hard an edge as Emily Witt. Health and Safety is a masterpiece of observation and analysis. Read it if you can.” —Keith Gessen

Praise for Rejection

“The stories in Rejection ring with audacity like a siren. The characters within are deliriously shocking, toxic, transgressive, but due to Tulathimutte’s extraordinary talents, the most frightening moments in the collection—those which make this book feel truly dangerous—are those of empathy. It’s this vertiginous event, feeling like I’m leering on from behind the safety of a glass wall, savoring the thrill of moving in for a far closer peek than I’d ever dare in the wild, then suddenly realizing I’m the one behind the glass, a complicit specimen who’s just been collected via the author’s mastery that will have me reading and rereading this book until I die or can no longer stand it. Tulathimutte is peerless.” —Alissa Nutting

“I could compare Rejection to the work of Nabokov, in its stylish and blazingly original skewering of convention; or to that of Roth, in the daring with which it plumbs the darkest depths of the human psyche to excavate what is most vulnerable about us; or to the worst (by which I mean best) Am I the Asshole post you’ve ever read on Reddit, in its commitment to embodying its characters at their neediest and most candid and therefore most delectable. But to do so would be to sell it short. I finished Rejection breathless with admiration. It is—Tulathimutte is—that rare thing in American literature: truly original.” —Vauhini Vara

“Rejection is unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one—not you, not me. Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius.” —Carmen Maria Machado