Morning Bites: Tom Robbins at CUNY, Chabon Sells to HBO, Gov. Haley’s Memoir and More

Back to school: Tom Robbins goes to CUNY. Michael Chabon sold a show to HBO.  Hobgoblin will be about “a motley group of conmen and magicians who use their skills at deception to battle Hitler and his forces during WWII.” Robert Birnbaum talks with author Gretel Ehrlic. In honor of International Women’s Day, the BBC takes a look at feminist icon, writer and theorist, Rosa Luxemburg. Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina is working on a memoir. Etta James gets […]

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Don’t Worry Leon Trotsky, I love You.

By Jason Diamond Alright, that’s not really true, because as pointed out by the late Rosa Luxemburg, and noted in the New Yorker review of the latest biography (Trotsky, on Harvard Press) on the ice-picked-to-death Bolshevik, the guy was a “rotten fellow” who “reveled in terror”. And if you know anything about Russian history in the 20th Century (hell, most of Russian history), rotten fellows and terror meant pretty bad things like people dying in numbers that would make Hitler […]

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