Books. Ideas. Stories.

Exploring curiosity, learning, history, creativity, and the questions that shape our lives. This is my digital home for books, blog, and ongoing projects.

Featured Work

Published books.

The Distance to Yesterday Book Cover AVAILABLE NOW

The Distance to Yesterday

By Robin Asati
๐Ÿ† Winner of the 21st Century Emily Dickinson Award

The Distance to Yesterday is a journey through memory, love, and time. In these poems, childhood games return with the scent of rain-soaked paper boats, young love lingers in unspoken silences, and the quiet strength of family echoes through pious stories told at dusk. Balancing nostalgia with reflection, this collection moves from the carefree innocence of youth to the unspoken struggles of adulthood.

Blog

Reflections on literature, mythology, philosophy, and stories.

8 min read โ€ข August 2026

The Mahabharata as a Mirror

The older I get, the less interested I become in reading the Mahabharata as history and the more interested I become in reading it as a map of human nature. Many of the qualities attributed to its characters can be read as symbols...

6 min read โ€ข Story

The Bench That Waited

Every evening at exactly six oโ€™clock, an old man in a faded blue sweater made his way to Riverside Park and sat on the third bench along the path with a small paper bag filled with roasted peanuts...

Reading List

Books that have deeply shaped my worldview and ongoing research.

  • ๐Ÿ“– Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Reading Now
  • ๐Ÿ“– Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…
  • ๐Ÿ“– The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1955) โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…
  • ๐Ÿ“– The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (1988) โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…
  • ๐Ÿ“– The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019) โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

What I'm Doing Now

I'm currently developing a psychological thriller that explores the fragile relationship between memory, truth, and identity. While the details remain under wraps, the story promises suspense, psychological tension, and characters whose greatest enemy may be their own mind.

About

Iโ€™m a writer and lifelong reader fascinated by ideas and the ways they shape the world. My work draws on a wide range of interests, including history, creativity, and learning, but Iโ€™m less interested in disciplines themselves than in the questions that connect them. Reading widely and thinking deeply are central to my approach, and much of my writing begins with a desire to understand something more clearly.

This website is a home for my books, general musings, notes, and ongoing projects. It serves as a record of ideas explored, questions pursued, and lessons gathered through years of reading, writing, and study.

Journey & Milestones

2025 โ€” First book published
2026 โ€” Launched robinasati.com
Robin Asati

Contact

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