![]() ![]() ![]() In her own words, here is Ramona Ausubel's Book Notes music playlist for her short story collection, A Guide to Being Born: If you don't have Spotify yet, sign up for the free service. Stream a Spotify playlist of these tunes. The dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel's characters and beginning all over again. ![]() "Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be dissected, our anti-anatomies. In the New York Times, Helen Oyeyemi wrote of the book: This is easily one of the year's finest short story collections. The stories in Ramona Ausubel's collection A Guide to Being Born are imaginative, ambitious, and constructed of language both vivid and concise. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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