Notable Online: 3/7–3/13
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Ramona Ausubel
What Turns Up: A Conversation with Peg Alford Pursell
Peg Alford Pursell discusses her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
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What to Read When You Want to Be Inspired by What Language Can Do
Peg Alford Pursell shares a reading list to celebrate her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/25–3/3
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Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Interview, Penny Perkins speaks with Ramona Ausubel about Ausubel’s latest novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, her previous collections, and “the ways that stories change the real chemistry of the world.” Then, Jeff Lennon reviews Cynthia Cruz’s “swirling” fourth poetry collection, How The End Begins. A well-chosen order helps to keep the […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Ramona Ausubel
I find tremendous hope in the act of storytelling—the way we can redirect energy, to reclaim history, to build back lives that have been otherwise upset.
...moreWealth and the American Dream
Two recent novels, The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel, explore privilege and entitlement, and what happens when wealth disappears. It can be hard to feel sorry for trust fund kids when you live paycheck to paycheck, but: From some distance, it’s a parable about the […]
...moreIn Conversation with Ramona Ausubel
Desire is the center of everything. We want because we are lonely, regretful, hopeful. We want because we don’t feel at home in our bodies or our lives. Want is this pivot point between whatever happened before that we’re trying to move away from or closer to and the question of whether we’ll get there. […]
...moreThe Long and Winding Road
The stories are woven together with my life and my life moved across the globe as I wrote, so the stories too took that long journey. My map of becoming a writer goes all the way around the world. At Lit Hub, Ramona Ausubel writes about the roads that led her to her first novel, No […]
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The Last Book I Loved: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I couldn’t wait to read it, but I was also infinitely patient. It’s that delayed gratification thing. I’m a sucker for it, and there are books that are worth the wait.
...moreA Cyclops Searches for Love in the Digital Age
In some way I think all the stories I write are love stories… Over at the New Yorker, writer Ramona Ausubel discusses “You Can Find Love Now,” her short story about a lonely cyclops who turns to the Internet in his quest for companionship. In her newest collection, Ausubel writes about mythical or unusual creatures […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Ramona Ausubel
Our lives can be as wild or as wacky as Ramona Ausubel’s fictive worlds, but in the end, as one of her characters puts it, “Everyone wants to be alone in someone else’s heart.”
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