Norbert Ruebsaat

Norbert Ruebsaat teaches Media and Communication Studies at Columbia Collage and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver B.C. He publishes regularly in periodicals and newspapers, has produced documentaries for CBC Radio’s Ideas program, and has twice been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards in fiction and creative non-fiction.

In Translation

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2006 August 2
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Norbert Ruebsaat rereads Rilke and revisits a cirque.

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Media Studies

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2006 June 17
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Norbert Ruebsaat listens to students from many countries talk about The Media.

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Smart Art

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2006 June 8
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Vancouver Writer Norbert Ruebsaat notices interesting parallels between modern art practices in the Old and the New World and learns more about what kitsch is.

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Pillow Talk

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2006 May 23
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Norbert Ruebsaat examines Alberto Manguel’s A Reading Diary while lying unclothed in the bathtub, and discovers some reading preferences of his own.

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Reproductive Technology (Weak End)

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2006 May 21
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Norbert Ruebsaat posts a short review of J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.

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Gallows Humour

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2006 May 20
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Norbert Ruebsaat posts the first of several short reviews, this one of a remarkably detailed memoir of post-war Germany and Austria by Hans-Georg Behr.

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Dichter

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2005 October 6
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Vancouver writer Norbert Ruebsaat offers a view of Stan Persky’s The Short Version: an ABC Book (New Star Books, 2005), which you can order from your local bookstore.

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