SSP Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Tony Tulathimutte ('05)

The
Symbolic Systems Program
presents

The Annual Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Lecture for 2025

Reading and Remarks

Tony Tulathimutte ('05, M.S. '05)
Writer

Monday, June 2, 2025
5-6:30 pm

In person event only: 
Gunn Rotunda, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

ABSTRACT:

Tony Tulathimutte will be reading from his new book of fiction, Rejection, and delivering various unprepared and potentially chaotic remarks about the SymSys program, Stanford, working in and leaving Silicon Valley, novel writing, and the humanities.

BIO:

I’m the author of the novels Private Citizens and Rejection. The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Playboy, and elsewhere. I’ve received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award and Rejection was longlisted for the National Book Award.

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