Talking about some great albums by CCR, the Velvet Underground, the MC5, Elvis, Cream, and Led Zeppelin from the first half of 1969.

On how we speak and write in the same dozen vapid phrases--"at the end of the day," "asking for a friend," "sorry not sorry," "hive mind."

Delving into some thrillers from 75 years ago: Bluebeard, Laura, Double Indemnity, The Scarlet Claw, Gaslight, The Uninvited.

"May Day" for 5/1.

On a large Anthony Braxton box set.

Discussion about our pop culture obsession with death.

On Downtown with Rich Kimball talking about Twitter, Tinder, hockey, an M.R. James ghost story, and Fleming's new short story, "Dunedin."

Essay on M.R. James's "A Warning to the Curious," the best ever Easter ghost story, save the one about the guy with the holes in his hands who pops out of the cave three days after his murder.

On Victor Hugo, Notre Dame Cathedral, and architecture in prose.

Favorite playoff series from the past.

Talking about Fleming's new humor book, Meatheads Say the Realest Things: Satire from the End of Civilization.

A look at journals as literature, from Pepys, to Thoreau, to Tynan, to Delacroix, to Fleming.

What his suicide tells us about publishing fifty years later.

From KISS to Mr. Belvedere to Chistropher Cross to Sherlock Holmes to Def Leppard to Horatio Hornblower.

With Fleming's Sam Cooke volume, Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, coming in 2020.

Good discussion about how people don't challenge themselves more, recent Fleming publications, his precocious neighbor, the friendship between Rich and Colin, and Colin's new short story, "Linesman."

For Nat King Cole's 100th birthday--a different look.

On J.P. Donleavy's A Fairy Tale of New York.

Non-blarney.

The Java Jive.

Because it is.

John Wayne controversy, Ford's Stagecoach, Hawks' Rio Bravo.

A conversation about "Hold Until Relieved," a story in issue #100 of Boulevard.

Pondering the French writer's treatise on love.

Discussing Dylan (Blood on the Tracks) and Keats ("La Belle Dame Sans Merci").