@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
The Streets of NYC: Some thoughts about what to do when ICE comes to town: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
February 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
The Streets of NYC: Some thoughts about what to do when ICE comes to town: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
GOT HER LIVE IF YOU WANT IT
In celebration of Mary Lyn Maiscott's birthday last week, I'm posting a link to her entire show at Berlin in NYC. That's Adam Tilzer on guitar, Danny Bradley on drums, Tomoko Omura on violin, and Ann Marie Nacchio on bass and harmonies. youtu.be/l8baN2NnYzQ?...
In celebration of Mary Lyn Maiscott's birthday last week, I'm posting a link to her entire show at Berlin in NYC. That's Adam Tilzer on guitar, Danny Bradley on drums, Tomoko Omura on violin, and Ann Marie Nacchio on bass and harmonies. youtu.be/l8baN2NnYzQ?...
January 28, 2026 at 4:23 PM
GOT HER LIVE IF YOU WANT IT
In celebration of Mary Lyn Maiscott's birthday last week, I'm posting a link to her entire show at Berlin in NYC. That's Adam Tilzer on guitar, Danny Bradley on drums, Tomoko Omura on violin, and Ann Marie Nacchio on bass and harmonies. youtu.be/l8baN2NnYzQ?...
In celebration of Mary Lyn Maiscott's birthday last week, I'm posting a link to her entire show at Berlin in NYC. That's Adam Tilzer on guitar, Danny Bradley on drums, Tomoko Omura on violin, and Ann Marie Nacchio on bass and harmonies. youtu.be/l8baN2NnYzQ?...
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A long time ago in a universe far away, I was the editor of a magazine called D-Cup. It has come to my attention that the large-silicone-breast trend of the late 1980s has, in 2026, gone in the opposite direction. Are Bs the New Ds? www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
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A long time ago in a universe far away, I was the editor of a magazine called D-Cup. It has come to my attention that the large-silicone-breast trend of the late 1980s has, in 2026, gone in the opposite direction. Are Bs the New Ds? www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
rrosen2727
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A long time ago in a universe far away, I was the editor of a magazine called D-Cup. It has come to my attention that the large-silicone-breast trend of the late 1980s has, in 2026, gone in the opposite direction. Are Bs the New Ds? www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
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A long time ago in a universe far away, I was the editor of a magazine called D-Cup. It has come to my attention that the large-silicone-breast trend of the late 1980s has, in 2026, gone in the opposite direction. Are Bs the New Ds? www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
My website is being swarmed with Chinese bots, scraping everything I've posted since 2010 to train their A.I. machines. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Read about it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
January 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
My website is being swarmed with Chinese bots, scraping everything I've posted since 2010 to train their A.I. machines. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Read about it here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
In which I explain why writing the book is the easy part: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
In which I explain why writing the book is the easy part: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4...
You can listen to Mary Lyn Maiscott's anti-Trump anthem for 2026, "When Hell Freezes Over," here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4... Then you can sing it in the streets, sing it in front of detention centers, and sing it in front of the White House and Mar-a-Lago. Happy new year to all!
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You can listen to Mary Lyn Maiscott's anti-Trump anthem for 2026, "When Hell Freezes Over," here: www.robertrosennyc.com/blog/posts/4... Then you can sing it in the streets, sing it in front of detention centers, and sing it in front of the White House and Mar-a-Lago. Happy new year to all!
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...
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!
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...
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...