@robert-rosen.bsky.social
Author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography, and A Brooklyn Memoir
Christmastime in NYC, and Mary Lyn Maiscott performed her holiday classic, "Blue Lights," at Berlin. Adam Tilzer on guitar, Danny Bradley on drums, Tomoko Omura on violin, and Ann Marie Nacchio on bass and harmonies. Happy Christmas to all! Video here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
December 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Christmastime in NYC, and Mary Lyn Maiscott performed her holiday classic, "Blue Lights," at Berlin. Adam Tilzer on guitar, Danny Bradley on drums, Tomoko Omura on violin, and Ann Marie Nacchio on bass and harmonies. Happy Christmas to all! Video here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Trump's tagging everything like he's President Taki 183.
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Trump's tagging everything like he's President Taki 183.
ONLY 8 MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS. If you're interested in a signed copy of one of my books, please message me. Price list and more info on my website: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful holiday!
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful holiday!
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
ONLY 8 MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS. If you're interested in a signed copy of one of my books, please message me. Price list and more info on my website: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful holiday!
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful holiday!
Click on the link to see Mary Lyn Maiscott's first public performance of "Mild December" and her cover of the Beatles' "Now and Then" at Berlin in the East Village. And read the story behind her John Lennon inspired song: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
It Was a Mild December - Robert Rosen - The Weekly Blague
It Was a Mild December
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December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Click on the link to see Mary Lyn Maiscott's first public performance of "Mild December" and her cover of the Beatles' "Now and Then" at Berlin in the East Village. And read the story behind her John Lennon inspired song: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Last night I did an interview about my book Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon on The Joe Rooz Show. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/BU2LaOe...
From the Dakota to the Dark Corners: Robert Rosen and Dr. Katherine Hayes (Ep. 213)
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December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Last night I did an interview about my book Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon on The Joe Rooz Show. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/BU2LaOe...
The coverage of the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut LP, Horses, reminded me of the first time I saw her, in 1970, when I had no idea who she was. I describe the scene in a short excerpt from a book in progress about an underground newspaper at the CCNY: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The coverage of the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut LP, Horses, reminded me of the first time I saw her, in 1970, when I had no idea who she was. I describe the scene in a short excerpt from a book in progress about an underground newspaper at the CCNY: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Portrait of a Lady Preparing for Her 99th Birthday. That's my mom, Eleanor Rosen. If you read A Brooklyn Memoir (or read it in its pre-pandemic incarnation, Bobby in Naziland) you're already familiar with her. You can read more here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4... And Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Portrait of a Lady Preparing for Her 99th Birthday. That's my mom, Eleanor Rosen. If you read A Brooklyn Memoir (or read it in its pre-pandemic incarnation, Bobby in Naziland) you're already familiar with her. You can read more here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4... And Happy Thanksgiving!
The Rise of the Robot Literature Critic: ChatGPT's erudite comparison of two of my books, Nowhere Man and Beaver Street, is a good example of why literature critics, already an endangered species, are on the verge of extinction: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Rise of the Robot Literature Critic: ChatGPT's erudite comparison of two of my books, Nowhere Man and Beaver Street, is a good example of why literature critics, already an endangered species, are on the verge of extinction: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
A Unique Place in the Literature of Pornography: For fans (and haters) of A.I. literary criticism, here's ChatGPT's well-balanced take on Beaver Street: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A Unique Place in the Literature of Pornography: For fans (and haters) of A.I. literary criticism, here's ChatGPT's well-balanced take on Beaver Street: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
75 years after the fact, the CCNY basketball point-shaving scandal is back in the news. It's the scandal that won't die. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
75 years after the fact, the CCNY basketball point-shaving scandal is back in the news. It's the scandal that won't die. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
A review of the Spanish edition of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon by Miguel Ramirez of
Intrinseco Musical: linktr.ee/intrinseco_m...
Intrinseco Musical: linktr.ee/intrinseco_m...
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A review of the Spanish edition of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon by Miguel Ramirez of
Intrinseco Musical: linktr.ee/intrinseco_m...
Intrinseco Musical: linktr.ee/intrinseco_m...
@mlmais.bsky.social and me at the end of the New York City "No Kings" march. Read about it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
@mlmais.bsky.social and me at the end of the New York City "No Kings" march. Read about it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
You Want to Make Money? Go to Law School. You Want to Get Ripped Off? Write a Book. I had a chat with Claude, Anthropic's A.I. machine, about their $1.5 billion settlement for copyright infringement. "Beaver Street" was part of it. Read my conversation here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You Want to Make Money? Go to Law School. You Want to Get Ripped Off? Write a Book. I had a chat with Claude, Anthropic's A.I. machine, about their $1.5 billion settlement for copyright infringement. "Beaver Street" was part of it. Read my conversation here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Had he lived, John Lennon would have turned 85 tomorrow, October 9. To commemorate the day, I'm sharing the complete birthday chapter from my book Nowhere Man. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Had he lived, John Lennon would have turned 85 tomorrow, October 9. To commemorate the day, I'm sharing the complete birthday chapter from my book Nowhere Man. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
I've assembled a "Porn Scholar's Reading List" for those of you who are curious what kind of academic papers post-graduate students are producing about the pornography industry these days. The titles are not parodies. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I've assembled a "Porn Scholar's Reading List" for those of you who are curious what kind of academic papers post-graduate students are producing about the pornography industry these days. The titles are not parodies. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Can ChatGPT not follow simple instructions when drawing a cartoon? And a conversation with Chat about how it sounds like HAL 9000 from 2001. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Can ChatGPT not follow simple instructions when drawing a cartoon? And a conversation with Chat about how it sounds like HAL 9000 from 2001. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
On the 25th anniversary of the publication of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon in Japan I asked ChatGPT if it could dig up some of the media coverage that put the book on bestseller lists. And I discovered the limits of ChatGPT: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
September 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
On the 25th anniversary of the publication of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon in Japan I asked ChatGPT if it could dig up some of the media coverage that put the book on bestseller lists. And I discovered the limits of ChatGPT: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
In my effort to find out what ChatGPT knows about OP, a radical newspaper at CCNY that folded in 1979 and is the subject of a book I'm writing, I continue my dialogue with the AI machine: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
September 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
In my effort to find out what ChatGPT knows about OP, a radical newspaper at CCNY that folded in 1979 and is the subject of a book I'm writing, I continue my dialogue with the AI machine: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
As I near completion of a book about OP, a radical student newspaper at City College, I've been asking ChatGPT how much it knows about the story. In the conversation I've linked to, it goes off the deep end and "hallucinates" an incorrect answer. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
August 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As I near completion of a book about OP, a radical student newspaper at City College, I've been asking ChatGPT how much it knows about the story. In the conversation I've linked to, it goes off the deep end and "hallucinates" an incorrect answer. www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
For those of you who can't get enough of my interviews, check out Famous Interviews With Joe Dimino. Joe and I cover a lot of ground, everything from the Brooklyn Dodgers to John Lennon to Hunter Thompson's suicide. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
Writer & Bestselling Author Robert Rosen
Podcast Episode · Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino · 2025-08-07 · 31m
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August 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For those of you who can't get enough of my interviews, check out Famous Interviews With Joe Dimino. Joe and I cover a lot of ground, everything from the Brooklyn Dodgers to John Lennon to Hunter Thompson's suicide. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
Why did John Lennon and Yoko Ono's sycophantic friend Elliot Mintz tell the truth on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan? I explain why here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
August 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Why did John Lennon and Yoko Ono's sycophantic friend Elliot Mintz tell the truth on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan? I explain why here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
This is ChatGPT's vision of the CCNY student newspaper OP. Aside from the bottom-right logo, it looked nothing like this. But I heard that ChatGPT wanted to be my friend. I struck up a conversation about books I've written and the one I'm writing. Read it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is ChatGPT's vision of the CCNY student newspaper OP. Aside from the bottom-right logo, it looked nothing like this. But I heard that ChatGPT wanted to be my friend. I struck up a conversation about books I've written and the one I'm writing. Read it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
I asked ChatGPT to create an illustration that incorporates artificial intelligence with conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of John Lennon. Read more about it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
July 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I asked ChatGPT to create an illustration that incorporates artificial intelligence with conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of John Lennon. Read more about it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
A.I. has some thoughts about the bizarre conspiracy theories that link me to the murder of John Lennon: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
Robert Rosen - The Weekly Blague
Conspiracy Theories and A.I.
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July 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A.I. has some thoughts about the bizarre conspiracy theories that link me to the murder of John Lennon: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...