To read the full review, click on the image or link where applicable.
Robert Rosen US tour dates
Celebrating the US launch of his book Beaver Street, author Robert Robert will be appearing in the following stores, where he will be reading from his (Vanity Fair: "Hot Type Pick") book, followed by a Q&A and book signing [more dates to come]
Tuesday, April 3, 7pm – 9:45pm Shameless Grounds, St Louis, MO Click here for more»
HOT TYPE PICK! Vanity Fair (April 2012)
"As a guy who went from studying with Joseph Heller to grinding out some of the most amusing girl copy I’ve ever seen, Bob knows how to make words dance." B.A. Nilsson, Words and Music»
In this five-part film, Kate Copstick and Jamie Maclean from Erotic Review magazine interview Robert Rosen about the impact of cruder tastes, cheap technology and freely available online videos on the porn business. Here»
Sleazoid Podcast #8 is the conclusion to our interview with Robert Rosen, author of Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography. It’s time to talk Traci Lords and how porn’s biggest star almost brought an industry down.Click here to go to Sleazoid Podcast #8»
Sleazoid Podcast #7 features the first part of an interview with Robert Rosen on his latest book Beaver Street. If porn’s golden age of the 1970s and 1980s is of interest to you, this is one podcast you WON’T want to miss. Click here to go to Sleazoid Podcast #7»
"Rosen deemed my piece 'grim and humorless' and seemed to suggest my story wasn’t as good as his porn book, which is called Beaver Street..." Susannah Breslin, Forbes»
Our author is in town.
Robert Rosen (author of Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography and Nowhere Man: The Last Days of John Lennon) is in the UK and available for interview on Wednesday, March 2 through to Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Contact Thomas on 0208 888 0781.
To read the full review, click on the image or link where applicable.
The Porn Identity. Four page feature and interview in the July 2011 of Bizarre.
“Robert Rosen was in the trenches of the porn industry for years, and he clearly took copious notes with his one free hand. His history of modern porn is entertaining, insightful, and hot.” Michael Musto, Columnist, The Village Voice
HOT PICK! "Beaver Street captures the aroma of pornography, bottles it, and gives it so much class you could put it up there with Dior or Chanel." Jamie Maclean, Editor, Erotic Review»
"Beaver Street is an anticapitalist book. The porn industry is a big, fat sleazy symbol of the capitalist system." Robert Rosen interviewed on the Moncrieff show, newsTALK 106-108fm. February 17, 2011
HOT TYPE! Vanity Fair UK
"Beaver Street leaves us with a new kind of X-File which creates its own genre... Riveting." Seattle pi»
For sixteen years Robert Rosen worked behind the X-rated scenes of such porn magazines as High Society, Stag, and D-Cup. In Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography, Rosen blows the lid off the lucrative and politically hounded adult industry, providing a darkly engaging account of its tumultuous decades—from the defining Traci Lords scandal and the conception of ‘free’ phone sex to the burgeoning success of smut in cyberspace in the twenty-first century. Buy the book»