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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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- 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
Sandy” Ives’ Drive Dull Care Away: Folksongs From Prince Edward Island and John Lilly’s Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal
I used to have this dream. I was, like John or Alan Lomax, driving in my big old car with a clunky reel-to-reel tape recorder in the back seat. I would cruise up and down the country roads searching for … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian music., Cape Breton trad muisc, Irish music, Irish trad music, Scottsih trad music
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Banning Eyre’s “In Griot Time”
Jennifer Byrne penned this review. As African music continues to grow in stature outside of its continental confines, Malian music receives no small share of the popularity pie. No great surprise there, given the vast wealth of talent within Mali. Banning … Continue reading
Richard K. Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs trilogy
Richard K. Morgan won the Philip K. Dick award with his first novel, Altered Carbon. Del Rey Books published it, and its sequel Broken Angels, as mass market paperbacks; the third installment, Woken Furies, comes out in the same format this month. … Continue reading
John Clute’s Appleseed
To set oneself up as someone who can actually describe John Clute’s Appleseed is tantamount to hubris. At best I can only claim to intimate the richness and fascination of a book that — well, look at it this way: … Continue reading
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Tagged Post-cyberpunk fiction, science fiction
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Poul Anderson’s The Van Rijn Method
At long last, someone has begun the monumental task of issuing the late Poul Anderson’s classic stories of the Polesotechnic League in internal chronological order. Hank Davis, who compiled this volume (there are three volumes in total), has expanded the … Continue reading
Robert Heinlein’s Glory Road
Before I get started on reviewing Glory Road, let me commend Tor for releasing Glory Road in a very nicely packaged hard cover edition, as it apparently hasn’t seen a hardcover edition since its original publication! If this were a play, I’d tell … Continue reading
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Ann Scanlon’s The Pogues: The Lost Decade
It’s of a gentleman soldier as a sentry he did stand He saluted a fair maiden by a waving of his hand And then he boldly kissed her and he passed it off as a joke He drilled her up … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music, Pogues
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Robert Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond The Sunset
To Sail Beyond The Sunset is the very last novel Robert Heinlein wrote, but you really, really need to read The Cat Who Walks Through Walls first, as this novel picks up seconds after that novel ends on a cliffhanger that … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s Moonheart
Moonheart may very well be the first novel by Charles de Lint that I ever read. I can’t really say for sure — it’s been awhile. It certainly is one that I reread periodically, a fixture on my “reread often” … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, urban fantasy
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Richard Adams’ Tales from Watership
Matthew Scott Winslow penned this review. I must admit that I didn’t approach this book with enthusiasm. I originally read Watership Down when I was 17, after having seen the animated film, and the book left an impression on my young mind. As … Continue reading