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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 â1964â depicts how the Beatles went from nobodies to messiahs practically overnight.

Miles Davis Kind of Blew It With âGreatest Everâ Jazz Album
EASY LISTENINGâKind of Blueâ is widely considered the best jazz album of all time: 65 years later, one canât help but wonder if thatâs only because itâs the least challenging.

This Was Secretly The Beatlesâ Most Revolutionary Album
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTERSix decades after âA Hard Dayâs Nightâ 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 WrongâThis Film Gets Them Right
GOD ONLY KNOWSAn exquisite new documentary on Disney+ recontextualizes the âsurf and sunâ rockers as far more âartfulâ than âoldies.â

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.

Youâll Never See John Lennonâs Death the Same After This
SENSELESSA new Apple TV+ docuseries, âJohn Lennon: Murder Without a Trial,â is the most harrowing and heartbreaking look yet at the rock iconâs death.

The Beatles Should Have Let âNow and Thenâ Be
DONâT MAKE IT BADThereâs a reason John Lennon never meant âNow and Thenââreleased this week alongside a short film and a Peter Jackson music videoâto be a Beatles song.

Youâve 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 superstardomâand blew this Beatles superfanâs mind.

âEleanor Rigbyâ Is a Short Story That Happens to Be a Song
and a hint of âpsychoâOr is it a song that happens to be a short story? Either way, thereâs no room for improvement.

Keatonâs Been Kicking Chaplinâs Ass for More Than a Century
SILENCE IS GOLDENJames Curtisâ 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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