Robert Rubsam Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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3 books

Vaim

Jon Fosse

Robert Rubsam

These narrators compel us from page to page, sweeping us along on a tide of modest events, insisting on each new development with the intimate immediacy of real life.

Hardcover, 2025

$25.95Member price:$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

First Love

Gwendoline Riley

Robert Rubsam

I wrote about Gwendoline Riley’s very funny novels of non-communication, for @thenation https://t.co/uxNTIff8do

Paperback, 2022

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Robert Rubsam

Becca Rothfeld: Kafka's diaries "are the intimate incisions of an author who could write only by etching words into the flesh." https://t.co/7pz5bXddTp

Hardcover, 2023

$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book