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

On the one-game playoffs of 1948 and 1978.

Talking about the virtues of YA fiction.

New Daily Beast piece on The House with a Clock in Its Walls.

Chatting about the poem on its 130th anniversary.

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.

On John Lennon and our selective, oft-hypocritical, poorly deployed outrage.

Taken from the newly completed essay collection--who wants?--called Glue God: Essays (and tips) for Repairing a Broken Self. The ocean is involved. Arrrr.

That would be American Fiction's 17th contest. Past judges include Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, Ray Carver, Wallace Stegner, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Louise Erdrich, Clint McCown, Josip Novakovich, Michael White, Elizabeth Strout, and Steve Almond.

Talking about a couple recent pieces in The American Interest and the New York Daily News on Downtown. Apologies for the scratchy voice.

William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident seventy-five years later and what it says about our hellish age of unexamined lives.

As a Futurist poet once said, "Everybody lies, everybody dies." And you should not automatically believe anyone--not a woman, not a man, not Grimace, not a space creature, not a talking rock--you don't know very, very well.

The Splinter and the Negro leagues.

A conversation about Fleming's new Conjunctions story "Sequentials," the invention of a new form of fiction, how terror is realized in prose, the manner in which prose orchestrates the sensation of movement, the episodic quality of life and narrative.

An authorized bio that actually works.

A discussion of the two new Aretha Franklin-related pieces in The Daily Beast and the New York Daily News.

As the past year has featured a ton of op-eds, there's now a new Op-ed section. Plus, scroll to the bottom of the main page to sign up for blog updates and the newsletter which will go out every two or three months or so, offering a round up of what's going on with new fiction, new books, new radio, new pieces.

New York Daily News piece on how we play-act grief on social media.

Aretha in Paris.

"Sequentials."

A conversation about Fleming's new op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

Candor + owning what you are going through = A legit chance in this life

A chat about Fleming's new op-ed in USA Today.

"Your mind need not be going." On the subject of 2001: A Space Odyssey and attention spans.

Looking at Sophie Huber's Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes.