Sam Cooke piece for the Library of Congress

07.06.2022

On Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers' "Jesus Gave Me Water." 

Radio interview about If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope

07.05.2022

Talking with Rich Kimball about the stories "One-Way Zebra," "Jaw Bones," "The Ghosts of the Alley, the Ghosts on the Wall."

Downtown with Rich Kimball

06.28.2022

Athletes better than most people think, and athletes not quite as good as most people think. 

New Beatles feature

06.18.2022

Examining Paul McCartney's "I'm Down" for Best Classic Bands. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

06.21.2022

Off-the-beaten-path forms of and perspectives on Sherlock Holmes. 

Radio segment about If You [ ]

06.13.2022

Talking about the book with author and professor Bruce Pratt. 

James Joyce essay in The Smart Set

06.13.2022

Why there is no better time to read Joyce's Ulysses, and why you shouldn't be intimidated to do so. 

Daily Beast feature on Buster Keaton

06.11.2022

Why Buster Keaton was so good. 

New York Daily News op-ed

06.10.2022

Journeying with Judy Garland for her 100th birthday. 

Feature in The Daily Beast

06.10.2022

On Judy Garland's place in the history of American artists. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

06.07.2022

Interview about F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

Radio interview about If You [ ]

05.31.2022

Digging deep into some stories in the book. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

05.24.2022

Talking about poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Wallace Stevens, and Walt Whitma. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

05.17.2022

Discussion of favorite John Lennon vocals and the newly completed Beatles book, Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

05.10.2022

JazzTimes cover story, the Boston Bruins in the playoffs, thoughts on which hockey player in history has been tasked with carrying the most of his team's load, 1982 Boston Red Sox, and a Captain Waverly Underhill episode of The Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater. 

An op-ed in the New York Daily News

05.04.2022

Why music is bigger than a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

05.03.2022

An underrated episode of The Twilight Zone, the perks of lemon water, the legend of Mickey Mantle's alleged 565-foot home run, M.R. James on Lights Out, Pink Floyd live in Stockholm in 1967. 

Excerpt from If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope in The Daily Beast

05.02.2022

A story about the ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and Abraham Lincolin in the afterline. 

JazzTimes cover story

05.02.2022

A feature on Dexter Gordon and the 1986 film 'Round Midnight. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

04.26.2022

Covering a new short story called "Bobby Orr," a recently surfaced Led Zeppelin soundboard from 1975, the Who at the Fillmore East in 1968, an unaired Boris Karlof pilot, and Orson Welles's relationship with Joseph Concrad's Heart of Darkness. 

Sam Cooke webinar

04.22.2022

Video conversation about the Sam Cooke 33 1/3 book for the Arlington Heighs Memorial Libary. 

Op-ed in the New York Post

04.21.2022

The defiant Charles Mingus, on his 100th birthday. 

Radio interview about four stories in If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope

04.19.2022

Headlong plunge into "Analogues," "Sequentials," "An Incident in Cathedral Romance," "A Deuce Cross." 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

04.12.2022

Wide-ranging talk: the first take of the Smiths' "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out," Red Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock, the music criticism of George Bernard Shaw, a radio adaptation of W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw," the most difficult hockey team of all-time to beat in a seven game series, early baseball slugger Gavvy Cravath. 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

04.05.2022

Conversing about the new JazzTimes Jelly Roll Morton piece, Prince covering Radiohead's "Creep," a George Bernard Shaw puppet play, and the 1983 Canadian B-horror, Siege.