About Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming has been writing for Jazz Times since 2006. His work can also be found in a number of other publications: Slate, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The New Criterion, Art New England, Tin House, Salon, ARTnews, ESPN The Magazine, The Smart Set, The Village Voice, The Barnes and Noble Review, The American Scholar, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Record Collector, Sport Literate, The Times Literary Supplement, MOJO, Salmagundi, Gramophone, Spin, Vanity Fair, Boston Review, Cineaste, The LA Times, The Wilson Quarterly, Record Collector, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vanity Fair, Boston Review, The American Interest, Architectural Record, Art in America, Metropolis, Sight and Sound, The Washington Post, Film Comment, The New Statesman, Time Out New York, Smithsonian Magazine, and many others.

His fiction has recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, TriQuarterly, Pen America, The Hopkins Review, The Republic of Letters, The Ampersand Review, Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Slice Magazine, Black Clock, The Texas Review, Green Mountains Review, Denver Quarterly, Bull, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Massachusetts Review.

His first book, Dark March: Stories for When the Rest of the World is Asleep, will be released in June 2013 by Outpost19, with his second, Between Cloud and Horizon: A Relationship Casebook in Stories, following in September 2013 from Texas Review Press.

He has recently completed two more books: The Anglerfish Comedy Troupe: Stories from the Abyss, and a collection of stories set on Cape Cod called Here, Googan Googan: Home Videos, Rolling Heads, the One that Got Away, and All Manner of Briney Salvation from the Edge of America. He will shortly be finishing a novel called The Freeze Tag Sessions, about a genius piano prodigy who would rather be anything but, and Musings with Franklin, a novel entirely in conversations--and which you can drink to--which is set in a bar that may or may not be hell where the regulars--Writer, Bartender, and the guy from the suburbs who dresses up as Ben Franklin--gather.

He is also working on a book about the music of the Beatles and how it can shape a life called Just Give Me the Backing, a third novel--Padraig and Lorcan: The Demands of Crime, the Logistics of Friendship, and the Art of Taking the Piss--and a children's book, Silas Beaverton: The Beaver Who Tried to Dam the Ocean.

His website is http://colinfleminglit.com/.