Varun Gauri
@varungauri
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Everything flows and nothing stays
Washington, DC
Joined May 2009
For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus is an intimate, funny, and heartbreaking novel about small-town America, the Indian diaspora, and the politics of marriage. "Luminous, brimming with heart and humor and characters so richly imagined they feel like family." Now available!
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Thank you Washington Independent Review of Books and The Inner Loop for Publishing this essay: Kamala's Coconut Tree: On South Asian Identity and the American Dream https://t.co/5IrwF72txE T
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"Novels make me feel alive. It's a sense of connectedness to the world." — Learn how @varungauri made the pivot from economist to novelist as his debut book hits bookshelves. https://t.co/zXysuslolF.
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One of our fave days of the year - the "Books We Love" interactive list from @NPR is out! Wonderful to see some of the authors we hosted on the list, such a @PrincetonSPIA's own @varungauri as well as @adellewaldman, @elizagriswold and Amy Tan. https://t.co/wyWIg22sRg
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Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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Varun Gauri, a former economist at the World Bank, writes modern romance novel about an arranged marriage.
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Varun Gauri, a former economist at the World Bank, writes modern romance novel about an arranged marriage.
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#Sundayvibes ... join us @writerscenter today, Sunday, at 3 pm... #DMVwriters #literaryevent #poetrypeople #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amwritingmemoir
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I will be in conversation with the wonderful novelist Laura Spence-Ash at Princeton Public Library, Tuesday October 29, 7 pm. Thank you @princetoninfo for this very nice review!
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Economist Varun Gauri discusses his debut novel in conversation with novelist Laura Spence-Ash at Princeton Public Library on Tuesday, October 29
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Thank you @WWPHPress and @WIRoBooks!
Yes!! Our 2024 Fiction award-winner is getting noticed! @WIRoBooks now available everywhere —#amreading #amreadingfiction
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Fantastic launch event tonight @PoliticsProse —big thanks to this amazing indie bookstore — and to all who showed up, bought books!! Next stop for WWPH @writerscenter on Sun. Oct. 27 at 3 pm!! Buy these books!!! #writerslift
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Today! Sunday, October 13 at 5 pm @PoliticsProse (main store on Connecticut Avenue) the launch of our 2024 award-winning books. Debut Authors: @varungauri, Megan Doney, and Chanlee Luu will read. Ffirst editions of their new books! Join us, DMV friends today! #sundayvibes
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Sunday, join us for the Washington Writers' Publishing House Launch (@WWPHPress) to discuss the 2024 winners of its annual poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscript contest, @varungauri, Megan Doney, and @ChanleeLuu - 5PM @ Conn Ave - https://t.co/OEY3zGCHx3
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My novel reviewed in the Washington City Paper
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Varun Gauri’s For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus follows a young Indian American couple as they stumble through an arranged marriage.
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Q&A about my debut novel, For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus, with the amazingly thoughtful Deborah Kalb
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Thank you WWPH!
Official Pub Day!!! Congratulations to @varungauri !! Now available everywhere books are sold in trade paperback and ebooks!! We like https://t.co/KJlEeVJzpF
#debutnovel #writers #India #amreading
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Thanks Sam!
Can’t wait to read it!
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Thank you for the kind words Biju. And your perceptive comments!
My friend @varungauri - has just published his debut novel. I had the privilege of reading the manuscript. It is beautifully written and crafted; a delightful, sensitive, and funny exploration of Indian American life that explores the inner workings and non-workings of a
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DC friends - Please join me at Politics and Prose Oct 13, 5pm!
Put this on your calender, DC-area writers!! #writerslift #WritingCommunity #dmvwriter @PoliticsProse
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Yeah that's a regrettably Eurocentric position.
@varungauri That is a defensible position but that is not what I am reacting to. It is this kind of thing, which is ubiquitous and feeds into a Huntingtonian perspective on democracy and development which I think is wrong (and also - implicitly - ubiquitous):
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"AN EXUBERANT DEBUT..." Our 2024 Award-winning fiction is now available for pre-order everywhere books are sold -- and officially on sale one month from today! #fiction #WritingCommunity #India #publish
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