Jan 5, 2014
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.