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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
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- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Books
Charles de Lint’s Greenmantle
Naomi de Bruyn penned this review. When Tony Valenti takes out Eddie ‘the Squeeze’ Pinelli for Don Magaddino, he has no idea that it will become the perfect opportunity for someone to turn the tables and get rid of him. As … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s The Wild Wood
As I was reading The Wild Wood today, I found the imprint of a shape pressed onto the words on the page in front of me. I was puzzled until I turned back one page and saw the same shape, inked in … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Trader
Jayme Lynn Blaschke penned this review. There are few fantasy concepts that enamor Hollywood so much as that of people switching bodies. Jodie Foster did it for Disney way back in the kiddie flick Freaky Friday, and in the ensuing years … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Memory & Dream
Jayme Lynn Blaschke penned this review. If there is an inherent flaw within the sub-genre of urban fantasy, it lies in the fact that many writers rely too heavily on established mythology. The familiar fantasy becomes a crutch, and holds the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles de lint, fantasy, Newford
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Charles de Lint’s Someplace To Be Flying
Laurie Thayer penned this review. Kerry moved to Newford to escape her past and live a normal life. But her life is anything but normal, especially with people like the Crow Girls in it. They appear to be irrepressible teenagers, and yet Maida eased … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles de lint, Crow Girls, fantasy, Newford
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Tim Powers’ Earthquake Weather
I’ve just finished the third of Tim Powers’ triptych set in the universe first introduced in Last Call and continued in Ecpiration Date, and I think my brain is broken. Not that Earthquake Weather is a bad book. Far from it. There’s just so much … Continue reading
Tim Powers’ Last Call
Tim Powers’ Last Call has just been re-released in a deluxe hardcover edition from Subterranean Press, with dustjacket and dynamic interior illustrations by J.K. Potter. It’s the first of several novels set in Powers’ only slightly unrecognizable fantastical universe, full of ghosts … Continue reading
Tim Powers’ Expiration Date
Like Last Call, Tim Powers’ Expiration Date is set in a gritty parallel of the modern world, where the majority of inhabitants go about their daily business without a clue as to the real underpinnings of supernatural power that ripple and flex just … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
I’ve long followed Charles de Lint’s writing, starting with, if I remember correctly, Moonheart way back when, and I’ve been as close as I ever come to being a fan for years. (I even got my hands on some early … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, illustrated books
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Meatball Fulton’s Return to Inverness
Skip Benninghouse penned this review. Thirty years after conceiving the first Jack Flanders audio adventure, The Fourth Tower of Inverness, Meatball Fulton celebrated the anniversary by bringing his popular character back to where it all began — to an incredible mansion high … Continue reading