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Colin Fleming

official author site

Op-eds

Literature writings

Sports writings

Beatles writings

New York Daily News

The commanding Lauren Bacall

Chicago Tribune

Going back to school and a very special teacher

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Keep moving with Miles Davis and Kind of Blue

The Guardian

The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night and joy

Chicago Tribune

New York Daily News

Willie Mays: Beyond a ballplayer

The Baltimore Sun

MLB does the Negro League greats a disservice

The San Francisco Chronicle

On the value of witches

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Hank Aaron, baseball's value king

New York Daily News

Easter every day

Chicago Tribune

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Easter Egg

New York Daily News

How love really works

Cape Cod Times

Bill Belichick and the truth about greatness

Time

Always believing in Santa Claus

Chicago Tribune

On the inspirational earnestness of Peppermint Patty

New York Daily News

Confessions of a Thanksgiving misfit

The San Francisco Chronicle

A perfectly haunting radio show for Halloween

Cape Cod Times

Tim Wakefield, knuckleballs, life

Dallas Morning News

The essential realness of Hank Williams' art on his centennial

New York Daily News

An author's annual Fourth of July ritual in Concord

New York Daily News

The real meaning of prayer

New York Post

A celebration of the still-living, 101-year-old Francoise Gilot, a remarkable woman, writer, and painter whom Pablo Picasso treated terribly

Cape Cod Times

Discovered as having ran well after the fact: a piece from August 2022 about David Ortiz's finest moment on a ballfield

New York Post

Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey and falling in love with Golden Age mysteries

New York Post

Take a New Year's Eve lesson from the Beatles in Hamburg

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