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Colin Fleming

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Literature writings

Sports writings

Beatles writings

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

New York Daily News

Roberto Clemente: The ultimate teammate in the real-life sense

New York Daily News

Pulling a Peanuts for Charles Schulz's centennial

New York Daily News

Not privileging monarchy

New York Daily News

Journeying with Judy Garland for her 100th birthday

New York Daily News

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

New York Post

Charles Mingus' walk in an age of talk on the occasion of his centennial

New York Daily News

Giving up the drink for St. Patrick's Day

The Wall Street Journal

Sam Cooke's kind of blues

The Wall Street Journal

Life lessons from the Beatles' 1970 film, Let It Be

USA Today

Celebrating that one time a year, of late, when baseball is truly baseball, in the month of October.

New York Daily News

The NFL, "Lift Every Voice," and Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," an anthem of real inclusivity beyond anthems

New York Daily News

The new name of the Cleveland baseball team and our tendency to play not to lose, and thus lose as a result

New York Daily News

The importance of Negro League players and their stats finally getting the recognition they've long deserved

Chicago Tribune

Anton Chekhov's invaluable Easter insight

New York Daily News

Take a lesson from Oscar Wilde this St. Patrick's Day and don't pull a Dorian Gray

USA Today

Tom Brady isn't old and neither are you

New York Daily News

Hank Aaron as the perfect ballplayer

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Don't miss out on the best part of Handel's Messiah

The Wall Street Journal

Looking past John Lennon's overrated "Imagine" and turning to "Help!"

New York Daily News

Tips for a lonely Thanksgiving

New York Daily News

The ultimate triumph of Satchel Paige

The Wall Street Journal

Why you should listen to the genius music of America's Mozart

The Wall Street Journal

Getting lost in the woods and finding the truth

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