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Personal essay in the new issue of New Haven Review

11.29.2018

Full text is available as pdf download--just scroll down to issue #21. Essay is about how every professor in college told Fleming, who learned not a single thing in college--nothing that is in all of these writings on art, literature, film, music, that you see in the four years' worth of work cached on this site, nor did he learn how to write fiction there--that he was bad at writing and would never get anywhere, and how he ignored these people who have never once written anything interesting in their lives.

Downtown with Rich Kimball - Beatle talk

11.27.2018

Tired of White Album anniversary puff pieces that regurgitate the same things? We don't blame you. Try this Smart Set piece instead.

11.26.2018

Yes I'm lonely, want to die.

11.22.2018

Talking ballet, sexism, real connections, and a dash of Beatles and Orson Welles

11.04.2018

New op-ed in The Wall Street Journal

10.31.2018

The headline is misleading. But Grand Jete, baby!

New op-ed for the New York Daily News

10.31.2018

Talking Sox on Downtown

10.30.2018

Yea for Damage! Also, stop, David Price. And some art on the ball field.

New short story "Hold Until Relieved"; in the fall issue of Boulevard

10.29.2018

New review in JazzTimes

10.29.2018

Radio interview about the Shock Theater package

10.23.2018

C-Dawg Fangston, your resident horror host, emerges from the abattoir to offer pearls of insight--and a bestiality joke--on a key chapter in cinematic horror's history, and then departs once more.

Weekly appearance on Downtown with Rich Kimball

10.16.2018

Check out a new essay in The Daily Beast on "Casey at the Bat"

10.13.2018

New art essay in The American Interest

10.12.2018

"Sailing Across a Room"--exploring an Edward Hopper masterpiece on its 75th anniversary in the then and the now.

Twilight Zone talk on the radio

10.09.2018

Is Nightmare at 20,000 feet--about to mark its 55th anniversary--the scariest program ever broadcast on American television?

Baseball radio segment

10.02.2018

Downtown with Rich Kimball

09.25.2018

How YA usually kicks the ass of adult literary fiction

09.22.2018

Talking "Casey at the Bat" on the radio

09.18.2018

Blues talk on the radio

09.11.2018

A discussion of harmonica genius Little Walter, fifty years after his death, and sixty years after the release of one of the all-time best greatest hits albums.

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