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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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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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