RAMONA AUSUBEL: Thank you! Publishing a book is a crazy experience because on the one hand, it’s the biggest, best thing ever (I have books! And people are actually reading them!) and on the other, it’s kind of quiet. She keeps her stories hovering effortlessly, like lovely ghosts, in that perfect territory between realism and fantasy.Īusubel-who is just as delightful as her prose-spoke with us a few months before the publication of A Guide to Being Born about book-jacket anxiety, the bizarre miracle of procreation, and the literary spaces where brightness and darkness meet.īOOKPEOPLE: First, congratulations on A Guide to Being Born! This debut collection and your debut novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, have both been published within the last year and a half.
They often dance into the realm of the fantastic-a man’s torso turns into a literal chest of drawers, a gaggle of grandmothers find themselves inexplicably trapped at sea on a giant cargo ship-but Ausubel expertly draws from the fantastic elements of everyday life, as well. The stories in A Guide to Being Born have been published in The New Yorker, One Story, Electric Literature, and FiveChapters among other journals, and included in The Best American Fantasy anthology. With one novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, and one short story collection, A Guide to Being Born, now under her belt, Ausubel is swiftly establishing herself as one of the most exciting and mesmerizing new fiction writers around. If you haven’t yet read the work of Ramona Ausubel, prepare to be enchanted.
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