Description
“Rejection” (2024) by Tony Tulathimutte
Book club hosted by Marco Astolfi
Rejection is a losers’ Manifesto in the form of seven interconnected stories that redefine what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and even oneself. The author explores modern loneliness in the age of dating apps and online culture, where people are locked in their digital cages, lost in perpetual brainrot and doomscrolling. The book has been praised by critics as fast, smart, funny, bleak, dark, brutal, gross, vulgar, perverse, profane, profound, disturbing, disgusting, depraved, twisted, hysterical, exhilarating, masturbatory, deadly serious, cringe-worthy, skin-crawling, and morally and politically ambiguous. The artist St. Vincent has even defined it as “Dostoevsky’s Note from the Underground meets Instagram”.
Well, what are you waiting for? Go see what it is all about and judge for yourself.
Marco Astolfi is a literary translator, writer and fairy from Italy. He lives in Berlin, is a co-organizer of the Village Heart Circle for GBTQ men and runs the Book Club evening every two months. He is a regular at Creative Writing and can occasionally be found modeling for Life Drawing classes. He attended the One Year Training in 2018 and led the Cock O’Clock workshops at Easter Stretch Festival 2019 and Private Talk at Stretch Imagina 2020.
About the Village Book Club
Book lovers and bookworms meet every two months to discuss works of fiction and non-fiction (novels, biographies, and essays) focused on or related to LGBTQIA+ themes and personalities.
Anticipating insightful discussions, we choose the next book two months in advance.
The discussion will be conducted in English.
** This event is part of the we are village program ‘Belonging versus Lonelines**‘, with the support of LADS**.
Learn more about the program here.
