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 to watch her family fight over her fortune while she’s still (barely) alive.

• In other (happier) soul news: Stax/Volt on the road, 1967.