Ramona Ausubel’s A GUIDE TO BEING BORN was positively mentioned in a New York Times article analyzing the resurgence of the short story form and praising the “unusually rich crop of short-story collections” this year. Riverhead will publish the book May 2, 2013.

Featured as a Publisher’s Weekly Pick of the Week, this innovative book is called, “a welcome addition to any library of dark fantasy, with its beautiful portraiture and gripping description of a man’s descent into perversity.” Quirk Books will publish on May 21, 2013.