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Jan 6, 2025 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Ramona Ausubel
Every once in a while, an inbox contains a little ray of light. Here was the request: If we send you a scientific article about an animal, will you write a piece of fiction about that beast, reflecting its situation in the wild? … Yes, please! I wrote back, which is how I came to spend a couple of weeks hanging out in my head, and on the page, with the Florida panther. “Home Range” is included in Creature Needs, a new anthology from the University of Minnesota Press.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
pshares.org | Ramona Ausubel |Rebecca Makkai
I don’t know what to do with my ghost in the city. It’s too familiar here, too sticky. The freight train clangs along outside. Flat car, coal car, oil car. I wondered if there were hoboes in trains anymore or...
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Ramona Ausubel
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
coloradosun.com | Ramona Ausubel |Kevin Simpson
This is an excerpt from “The Last Animal,” a Colorado Book Awards finalist in the Novel category. In the Age of Extinction, two tagalong daughters traveled to the edge of Siberia with their mother to search the frozen earth for the bones of woolly mammoths. Eve was fifteen, reshaping herself more each day; Vera at thirteen was a stubborn straight line. Jane, their mother, was a graduate student in paleo-biology.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Ramona Ausubel |Julia Phillips |Jesmyn Ward
Our 2020 Book of the Year is a mesmerizing work of essays and tender illustrations, meditations on nature, cumulative in effect; nature as memoir, nature as metaphor, nature as simply and joyously itself. Each chapter captures a moment, each centered around a different natural phenomenon and charts the reverberations of the lived experience it evokes, be it family, identity or the notion of belonging. She urges us to start small to “start with what we loved as kids and see where that leads us.”
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Ramona Ausubel |Isabelle McConville
In Search of Hope: A Guest Post by Ramona Ausubel From Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty to Awayland, Ramona Ausubel knows how to tug at our heartstrings. In The Last Animal we all get to fall in love with the star of the show: Pearl, our favorite woolly mammoth. In her exclusive essay below, Ramona takes readers behind the scenes of creating Pearl and the unforgettable family surrounding her. Here’s Ramona, to fill us in on all the woolly secrets.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Joanna Wallace |Scott Reintgen |Ramona Ausubel
It’s finally time for our shiny new Monthly Picks — but don’t be fooled, these aren’t just any books. This roundup is the best of the best (aren’t they always?) with books from our favorite authors and stories we can’t get enough of. From a laugh-out-loud thriller to an unforgettable look at cinema, a big-hearted story about family (and an adorable woolly mammoth) to an indelible Newbery Medal Winner, this selection is as delightful as ever. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
thecreativeindependent.com | Ramona Ausubel
Author Ramona Ausubel discusses maintaining energy levels while working on long-term projects, upholding self-imposed deadlines, and finding readers for your writing. Writing, Education, Process, Time management, Inspiration, Focus Highlights on What do you do when you get stuck in a project that you’ve been working on for a very long time? How do you get unstuck? I feel like that’s my actual profession: to get stuck and then get unstuck.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
issues.org | Mark Schaefer |Ramona Ausubel |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XXXIX
Review ofThe Last AnimalNew York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2023, 288 pp. Three decades ago, Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park presented readers with the tantalizing question of whether a dinosaur could be brought back to life.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Diane Cook |Yoko Ogawa |Ramona Ausubel |Mohsin Hamid
I have always loved fairy tales. I love their economy of language and all their archetypes. They were the first stories I remember hearing, and they left their mark on me. I’m sure I’m not alone in this. Consider all that you imagine and remember when you read simple, two-word fairy tale phrases: “dark forest,” “magic mirror,” “enchanted sleep.”As a kid, I was captivated by fairy tales’ ability to normalize the utterly strange.
