Colin Fleming is a freelance writer and the author of Buried on the Beaches: Cape Stories for Hooked Hearts and Driftwood Souls. Find him on the web at colinfleminglit.com.
In 1920, a young Fitzgerald wrote the definitive novel about the Big Man on Campus, one that both romanticized and satirized university life—and set him on the path to greatness.
Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year vividly records how human nature can devolve amid a pandemic—and challenges us all to grow in a time of crisis.
Miles Davis’s classic jazz-rock hybrid, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, still has the capacity to astound—and to remind us what real artistic risk-taking looks like.
There’s no better Christmas listen than “From Spirituals to Swing”—two jazzy Yuletide concerts from the late 1930s, brought to you by John Hammond and the wise men and women of rhythm.
Published: Dec 24, 2019
Photo by Thomas James Caldwell via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)
A radio program from 70 years ago provides a timely lesson in what we lose with our obsession with “next, next, next” at the sake of “was,” “is,” and “will be.”
Published: Oct 31, 2019
Herman Melville, Portrait by Joseph O. Eaton (Wikimedia Commons)
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