The first time I applied to Tony Tulathimutte’s CRIT, the workshop he teaches from his living room in Crown Heights, I was rejected. Though at that point he was already the published author of a novel, Private Citizens, and the recipient of the prestigious Whiting and O. Henry Awards, he is humble, calling himself “literally just some guy” on the class billing. Still, I was crushed. “As always,” he wrote in the form email I received in July 2021, “rejection means nothing, and I encourage you to apply again…”
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