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Author: Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming’s latest book is Meatheads Say the Realest Things. His fiction appears in Harper's, Commentary, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salmagundi, and Boulevard, and his writings on art, film, music, literature, and sports run in The Atlantic, Salon, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and JazzTimes. He has three books coming out in 2021: an entry in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series on Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963; a story collection with Dzanc called If You [ ]: Fantasy, Fabula, Fuckery, Hope; and a volume looking at 1951's Scrooge as the ultimate horror film from Auteur; with a novel called Musings With Franklin: A Novel Told in Conversation That You Can Drink To to follow. His op-eds appear in USA Today, New York Daily News, The New York Times, LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He's a regular radio guest and maintains the voluminous Many Moments More blog on his website colinfleminglit.com, which ranges in its explorations from ballet to film to sports to literature to music to art to nature to unique workout routines in historical structures while exposing the corruption and discrimination — and plain bad writing — rampant in publishing, and documenting what it truly means to endure and grow. Sometimes there are posts on Twitter @colinfleminglit
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12/23/2019

The Sad State of Holiday Affair

The complexity of a holiday classic

by Colin Fleming

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07/11/2019

Writing with a Brush

Guy de Maupassant’s Like Death, a coloristic study of love.

by Colin Fleming

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11/26/2018

Revolution Carnival

Admiring John Lennon’s creative genius

by Colin Fleming

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09/06/2018

Wishing Oceans

Navigating the waves within ourselves

by Colin Fleming

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05/24/2018

Blue Cheer

and the world’s first heavy metal album.

by Colin Fleming

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04/07/2017

Playing Ninth

Furtwangler’s revival

by Colin Fleming

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01/04/2017

Season’s End, Season’s Start

Nick Drake’s lone surviving live recording

by Colin Fleming

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09/28/2016

The Laughing Dram

Whisky Galore! and the cinematic wonders of a spirit.

by Colin Fleming

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05/18/2016

Novel Helmsman

The instructive aspects of midshipman fiction.

by Colin Fleming

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04/04/2016

Two-Seam Tunes

The shared history of baseball and music

by Colin Fleming

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