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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
Richard Adams’ Watership Down
Matthew Scott Winslow penned this review. ‘Matt,’ my mother once told me, ‘sometimes you’re so close to the world that you must step back in order to see the finer details more clearly.’ In life we go our way, looking closely … Continue reading
Philip Jose Farmer’s Tarzan Alive
Mention the name of Tarzan and most people think of the brawny hero of a series of B-movies made in the ’30s and ’40s. Elmo Lincoln was the first actor to portray the so-called “Ape Man” way back in 1918, … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Rice Burrough, Philip Jose Farmer, pulp fiction, Tarzan
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Dorothy L. Sayers’ Sayers on Holmes, Essays and Fiction on Sherlock Holmes
Irene Henry penned this review. Myth? Legend? No, not really. For a certain segment of society, Sherlock Holmes is a real and living individual, not an iconic fictional character. For these blessed people, the study of the Canon (the published accounts … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Sayers, sherlock holmes, Victorian mysteries
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Mary Gentle’s Rats and Gargoyles
I’ve always loved fantasy books that had a strong sense of history about them — I blame it on being exposed to Tolkien and Asimov too early in life. Not many authors, however detailed their personal notes, can come close … Continue reading
David Marusek’s Counting Heads
Counting Heads is David Marusek’s first novel, and an expansion of an earlier short story. It is a riveting work of excitement, adventure and character. The story takes place about a century and a half from the present. Its plot threads … Continue reading
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Escape From Hell
When last we met Allen Carpenter, he was about to climb back into Hell. Back up Satan’s huge leg and onto the vast plain of ice that was the final, inner circle of Dante’s Inferno, to pursue his self-imposed mission of … Continue reading
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Inferno
Larry Niven is one of the giants of contemporary fantastic fiction. He’s written some of the best and most innovative hard science fiction of the last 40 years; he has managed new and unique takes on classic fantasy themes just … Continue reading
Neil Bartlett: Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall
I don’t remember when I first read Neil Bartlett’s Ready To Catch Him Should He fall. It was probably sometime in the 1990s, but at this point I’ve read it several times, most recently after seeing John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus. … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, gay & lesbian fiction
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Joseph Bristow, ed.: Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend
From the vantage of a century later, it’s hard for us to understand the last years of Oscar Wilde’s life and those immediately after his death. His disgrace after his conviction for committing acts of “gross indecency” with another man … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, critical studies
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James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux series
Let’s get this straight, right off the top; Dave Robicheaux is not a private investigator! He works for the Sheriff’s department in New Iberia, a sleepy backwater parish in Louisiana — and the town isn’t quite as sleepy as it … Continue reading
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Tagged Mystery series, New Orleans
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