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Colin Fleming's fiction, nonfiction, and op-eds appear in Harper's, Rolling Stone, Slate, Salon, Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, ARTnews, The New Criterion, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic, JazzTimes, and The Washington Post, among other venues. He's the author of The Anglerfish Comedy Troupe: Stories from the Abyss (Dzanc), and is a regular guest on NPR and many additional radio programs and podcasts. Find him on the web at colinfleminglit.com, or his blog about the day in, day out life of an artist, https://www.colinfleminglit.com/blog, or on Twitter at #colinfleminglit.
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The Beatles Had No Idea They Were About to Transform America
HAVING A LAUGHThe new Apple TV+ documentary “1964” depicts how the Beatles went from nobodies to messiahs practically overnight.

Miles Davis Kind of Blew It With ‘Greatest Ever’ Jazz Album
EASY LISTENING“Kind of Blue” is widely considered the best jazz album of all time: 65 years later, one can’t help but wonder if that’s only because it’s the least challenging.

This Was Secretly The Beatles’ Most Revolutionary Album
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTERSix decades after “A Hard Day’s Night” was first released, we dig into the joy and transgressive sound of what should go down as the best album the Beatles made.

We All Got The Beach Boys Wrong—This Film Gets Them Right
GOD ONLY KNOWSAn exquisite new documentary on Disney+ recontextualizes the “surf and sun” rockers as far more “artful” than “oldies.”

60 Years Later: The Beatles Met the Moment on Ed Sullivan
YEAH, YEAH, YEAHOn Feb. 9, 1964, Americans witnessed the first truly seismic television event. What stands out most 60 years later, is just how ready The Beatles were for their invasion.

You’ll Never See John Lennon’s Death the Same After This
SENSELESSA new Apple TV+ docuseries, “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial,” is the most harrowing and heartbreaking look yet at the rock icon’s death.

The Beatles Should Have Let ‘Now and Then’ Be
DON’T MAKE IT BADThere’s a reason John Lennon never meant “Now and Then”—released this week alongside a short film and a Peter Jackson music video—to be a Beatles song.

You’ve Never Heard the Beatles Quite Like This
TIME MACHINE GIGThe recently unearthed recording from the spring of 1963 captures the boys from Liverpool on the precipice of superstardom—and blew this Beatles superfan’s mind.

‘Eleanor Rigby’ Is a Short Story That Happens to Be a Song
and a hint of ‘psycho’Or is it a song that happens to be a short story? Either way, there’s no room for improvement.

Keaton’s Been Kicking Chaplin’s Ass for More Than a Century
SILENCE IS GOLDENJames Curtis’ biography gives Keaton the loving, intelligent treatment he deserves, and acknowledges that he was perhaps the funniest man who ever worked in Hollywood.
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