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Talking blues music: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, Bessie Smith, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Boy Williamson, Blind Willie Johnson
An intervew about Fleming's latest book, Scrooge
A new essay in The Smart Set on female film producer Joan Harrison, a new piece on Sam Cooke and Christmas, an early recording of a ghost story from 1905, Christmas radio episodes from Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and Orson Welles
A Christmas entry from Thoreau's journals, the Beatles' second Christmas fan club message, the 1974 Rankin-Bass special, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a William Holbrook Beard Santa painting from 1862, a 1937 Christmas episode of Lights Out
A depressing holiday radio episode of Dragnet, a Christmas Eve 1963 BBC broadcast of M.R. James's "Whistle and I'll Come to You" with Michael Hordern, Christmas recordings from Jerry Lee Lewis and the Grateful Dead
The Get Back docu-series and a new piece in The Daily Beast, the Christmas writings of Washington Irving, the best wrist shots in hockey
A discussion about the baseball Hall of Fame ballot and Boston Bruins hockey
A Thanksgiving-themed episode of Suspense, Orson Welles and John Donne, Arthur Machen on the radio in 1937, an underrated cut from the Beatles' White Album, a Green Day BBC session from 1994
John Clare's "November," radio mountings of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "The Speckled Band," an early live tape of the Band, Vasily Polenov's painting, "The Patient"
A film essay in The Smart Set, a baseball op-ed in USA Today, the writings of James John Audubon, an H.G. Wells ghost story, and the five best New England Patriots of all-time
The deep state evil of publishing, Game 7 of the 1986 World Series, the most depressing radio program ever broadcast, a relatively unknown gem of horror radio, a signature "gross out" moment of radio recreated, scary hockey players
The ALCS, the Grateful Dead doing "Good Lovin'" in 1972, a Saki story about a ferret and toast, a BBC TV production of an M.R. James story from fifty years ago, a fine episode from the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater, and Christopher Lee reading Dracula
A trip to Walden, the advancing Red Sox, the bonkers 1986 ALCS, Fleming's short story, "The Last Field," John Field's nocturnes, Andrew Hill's "Dedication," 1935's The Raven
A Saki story called "The Open Window," seasonal spooky episodes of The Myterious Traveler and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, a Halloween safety film from 1985, stairs, the sun, the Red Sox and October baseball
Half hour conversation about Fleming's Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (Bloomsbury; 33 1/3)
Passive aggressive approaches to conversation, Miles Davis, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the history of errors in baseball, The Young Riders, hockey, cornerbacks, writing objectives if you're any good at it, the concept of "gunning" for someone, the usefulness of the phrase, "Great, good luck"
Muddy Waters at Stovall's Planation in 1941, the Beatles' "And Your Bird Can Sing," cool players who aren't stars, the appeal of low-scoring games, the "life stuff" that makes college football so great
A new short story called "The Captain's Walk," radio adaptations of Poe and haunted Americana, a Mexican horror film from 1934, the best cinematic adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
The IRS, editors, the Genius Lives Matter movement, John Huston's Moby Dick, the 1965 NME Pollwinners concert, the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus," the improbable baseball career of Max Bishop, sports logos
Coltrane/Ascension feature in JazzTimes, the Dead's "Dark Star," 1957's The Monolith Monsters, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James's "The Mezzotint," and Charlie Watts
Pieces in JazzTimes and The Smart Set on Scott LaFaro and Toni Morrison; baseball; a useless literary agent; The Golden Girls; Dylan in 1964 in Philly; the Stones in '71 at Leeds University; the 1953 sci-fi film, Invaders from Mars
A new Fleming essay in Salmagundi about running stairs and saving one's soul, Bogart and Bacall in Key Largo, a Ritchie Valens live LP, and the best Red Sox
Found item from 2017: introducting Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge
The post-reality world, the Stones' Between the Buttons, David Krejci, late of the Bruins, a film club production of a classic M.R. James ghost story, Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder
Radio horror, radio sci-fi, a New York Daily News op-ed, players closer than you think to baseball's Hall of Fame, players further away than you think, and one of the Who's best studio creations
