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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 LAUGH

The new Apple TV+ documentary “1964” depicts how the Beatles went from nobodies to messiahs practically overnight.

Colin Fleming | Published Nov 28, 2024
opinion

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.

Colin Fleming | Published Aug 17, 2024

This Was Secretly The Beatles’ Most Revolutionary Album

SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER

Six 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.

Colin Fleming | Published Jul 10, 2024

We All Got The Beach Boys Wrong—This Film Gets Them Right

GOD ONLY KNOWS

An exquisite new documentary on Disney+ recontextualizes the “surf and sun” rockers as far more “artful” than “oldies.”

Colin Fleming | Published May 24, 2024

60 Years Later: The Beatles Met the Moment on Ed Sullivan

YEAH, YEAH, YEAH

On 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.

Colin Fleming | Published Feb 09, 2024

You’ll Never See John Lennon’s Death the Same After This

SENSELESS

A new Apple TV+ docuseries, “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial,” is the most harrowing and heartbreaking look yet at the rock icon’s death.

Colin Fleming | Published Dec 06, 2023
opinion

The Beatles Should Have Let ‘Now and Then’ Be

DON’T MAKE IT BAD

There’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.

Colin Fleming | Published Nov 03, 2023

You’ve Never Heard the Beatles Quite Like This

TIME MACHINE GIG

The 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.

Colin Fleming | Published Sep 18, 2023

‘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.

Colin Fleming | Published Apr 29, 2023

Keaton’s Been Kicking Chaplin’s Ass for More Than a Century

SILENCE IS GOLDEN

James Curtis’ biography gives Keaton the loving, intelligent treatment he deserves, and acknowledges that he was perhaps the funniest man who ever worked in Hollywood.

Colin Fleming | Published Jun 11, 2022

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