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Ravi Mangla

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Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

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Ravi Mangla is the author of the novels The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) and Understudies (Outpost19, 2013). His writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, Cincinnati Review, Paris Review Daily, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY.

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	One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chris Brazier (Editor), Jhumpa Lahiri (Contributor), Chika Unigwe (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understudies 4.34 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Observant 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blurb 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pear Noir! (#2) by Daniel Casebeer (Editor), Molly Gaudry (Goodreads Author), Brandon Scott Gorrell (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Visiting Writers 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Conversation with Gabriel Blackwell at The Millions

Gabe Blackwell and I talked about our respective books at The Millions.

"I spent a long time distancing my writing work from my day job. That distance has gotten narrower over time. I think my central preoccupation is still language, but I recognize the political content is more likely than the sentences to take center stage."

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