Episode 240 — Ravi Mangla

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ravi Mangla is the guest. His new novella, Understudies, is now available from Outpost 19. Laura van den Berg raves "Ravi Mangla's Understudies is a brilliant meditation on the private cost of celebrity, the longing to transcend the ordinary, and the seductive nature of performance. Darkly funny, sharply-observed, and terrifically moving, Understudies is an essential debut." And Gary Lutz says "Ravi Mangla's delightingly tight, micro-chaptered Understudies is an unassumingly beautiful and moving debut. It's elegantly and hilariously precise about everything it touches, and it touches almost everything human." Monologue topics: repetition, rhyming, making beats, stuff, my annual purge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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