Author Archives: Diverse Voices

About Diverse Voices

Diverse Voices is our catch-all for writers and other staffers who did but a few reviews or other writings for us. They are credited at the beginning of the actual writing if we know who they are which we don't always. It also includes material by writers that first appeared in the Sleeping Hedgehog, our in-house newsletter for staff and readers here. Some material is drawn from Folk Tales, Mostly Folk and Roots & Branches, three other publications we've done.

A Kinrowan Estate story: Blackberry Cobbler

Posted on 28th July 2019 by Diverse Voices

Whisht! Hush now, will you, shhhh! Quick, over here, let’s go in the hallway under the window … outside the kitchen! Oh, dear me, that’s better! Have a seat, Miss Denise seems to be elsewhere, this is her favorite place … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate Story: Our Cats

Posted on 19th May 2019 by Diverse Voices

While our Kinrowan Hall is justly famous for the music that keeps the old place resonating nicely, we’re also home to a fair number of our feline friends. While some of the cats just come and go (not unlike the notoriously peripatetic … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 5th of May: family friendly rootsy music, a look at queer comics, offbeat Columbian music, Peanut butter cups, Folkmanis’ Narwhal puppet, ‘City Of New Orleans’ and other stories

Posted on 5th May 2019 by Diverse Voices

If I told you the whole story, your head would burst. There is no one story, there are branches, rooms… corridors, dead ends. — John Hurt as The Storyteller in Jim Henson’s The Storyteller All stories including our reviews are never the … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 31st of March: Nietzsche, Stephen King considered, chocolate of course and other matters

Posted on 31st March 2019 by Diverse Voices

The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times. — Friedrich Nietzsche Yes, that’s lox and cream cheese on a toasted bagel I’m having along with Komodo Dragon coffee. … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 3rd of March: Danish String Quartet’s Last Leaf, Lindt dark chocolate, music from Planxty, some very different approaches to “traditional” music, and Neverwhere in various forms

Posted on 3rd March 2019 by Diverse Voices

Is it more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not? — China Mieville’s The City & The City Come I’m. I was discussing with Bjorn, our brewmaster, what he had cellared for barley wines and … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 20th of January: Mary Gauthier’s Rifles & Rosary Beads, Elizabeth Bear on chocolate truffles, some Roger Zelazny reviews, Music from Sufjan Stevens, Bruce Campbell’s Jack of All Trades series and other matters

Posted on 20th January 2019 by Diverse Voices

Endings are rubbish. They’re only the place where you choose to stop talking. — The Narrator in Catherynne Valente’s The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home Come in, we’re almost ready for you to read this edition, but first have … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Orchestra

Posted on 13th January 2019 by Diverse Voices

Indeed there is an orchestra at Kinrowan Estate that probably as been around as long as the Never-ending Session has been. I’ve booked them several times for private parties held in the Robert Graves Memorial Room. Musicians. You have to … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: A Storyteller

Posted on 31st December 2018 by Diverse Voices

Storytellers and those who read or listen to stories both expect stories to have a beginning, a narrative that tells the tale, and a more or less plausible ending. It’s too bad that that’s a fucking lie — stories are … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Kinrowan Hall

Posted on 25th December 2018 by Diverse Voices

  Reprinted from The Sleeping Hedgehog, our in-house newsletter for staff and friends of ours. Dated we think from the period just before the modern Library addition was added which makes it from 1870 or so.  Winter here at the … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 15th of April: Furry fiction, Live music from Danú, Pamela Dean’s favourite ballad, Welsh music, a Stonewall Kitchen chocolate bar and other tasty matters

Posted on 15th April 2018 by Diverse Voices

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feel true to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is. — Pamela Dean’s The Dubious Hills Now for something more than a little out of the … Continue reading →

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