Medium Rare: Interviews, Essays, Reviews & Rants
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ISBN-10: 1-932732-25-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-932732-25-2
About the bookA widely published critic specializing in technology and the arts, Mark Fleischmann had planned to spend the final years of his career as a staff writer at an a/v tech mag...until a foreign publisher bought it and fired the staff. He started puttering around on the blogging platform Medium. Branching out beyond his former specialties of tech and music to explore topics previously off-limits, he pounded out urban rants, spiky political commentaries, interviews with musicians and crime-author heroes, and goofy essays on a variety of subjects. This book is a compilation of that work from 2019-22. Except for the interviews, it is no longer available online. Since having his full-time writing career abruptly terminated at age 60, Mark has been approached by three different editors of the magazine that fired him and has turned them all down.
About the authorMark has been a published critic, journalist, and author for more than 40 years. He has served as founding editor-in-chief of etown.com, audio editor of Sound & Vision and its predecessor Home Theater, senior editor of Video Magazine, audio critic of Rolling Stone, and columnist for Audio Video Interiors, DigitalTrends.com, Premiere, and The Village Voice. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Personal, CrutchfieldAdvisor.com, Details, Entertainment Weekly, The Men's Journal, Newsday, Spin, The Ultimate AV Guide, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He has lived in New York City since 1975. Visit Mark's homepage.