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
Norbert Ruebsaat rereads Rilke and revisits a cirque.
Media Studies
Norbert Ruebsaat listens to students from many countries talk about The Media.
Smart Art
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.
Pillow Talk
Norbert Ruebsaat examines Alberto Manguel’s A Reading Diary while lying unclothed in the bathtub, and discovers some reading preferences of his own.
Reproductive Technology (Weak End)
Norbert Ruebsaat posts a short review of J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.
Gallows Humour
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.
Dichter
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.