Mishra still spends several months
a year writing in a rented cottage in Mashobra, a
sleepy Himalayan town of 2,000.
His rise to prominence, however, does seem studded
with ... first came in
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1994, when he was scraping by in Mashobra writing
book reviews for Indian newspapers in the morning
and reading and "filling notebooks like ... Things."
His next big break came in 1997, after he'd moved
back to Mashobra to start writing again. One day he
noticed that Barbara Epstein, an editor