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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
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Salon Fantastique
Datlow and Windling are old hands at editing anthologies at this point, and they’re exceedingly good at it. Salon Fantastique is their latest offering, a collection of fifteen previously unpublished fantasy stories from both established ( e.g., Peter Beagle, Jeffrey McGuire, Delia … Continue reading
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales is the third collection of fairy tale retellings for younger readers edited by the truly fabulous editorial team of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, the first collection being A Wolf at the Door (2000) and the second Swan Sister (2003). … Continue reading
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Tagged Revisionist Fairy Tales
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Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Five Poems
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether … Continue reading
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Dylan Thomas’s Dylan Thomas Unabridged: The Caedmon Collection
(Editor’s Note: Reviewers Christopher White and Huw Collingbourne have written the review of this extensive collection together. To make it easier to see whose opinions you’re reading, we’re putting Christopher’s comments in plain text and Huw’s in italics.) Anyone with … Continue reading
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Phil Brucato’s Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard’s Name
Most anthologies are notable for their contents; the authors, the concepts, the theme, the prose, the artwork. This one is all of that, and more: proof that magic can and does happen. Magic, as editor Brucato notes, that “flows from … Continue reading
Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter’s second to last novel, is a fanciful tale of a winged English woman, an American journalist and the exceedingly bizarre circus that draws them together. Sophie Fevvers, the “Cockney Venus,” is a famous aerialiste, or … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, literary criticism
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Dan Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd
Roughly speaking, books about baseball tend to fall into a few broad categories. The analytics crowd tends to go for titles that are heavy on snark and numbers in equal measures, the clear descendants of their online sources. Other books … Continue reading
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Tagged American sports history, baseball
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David Hutchinson’s Europe In Autumn
David Hutchinson’s Europe In Autumn is really three books. There’s the first half of the volume, which is an elegantly crafted spy thriller set in an all-too believable near future Europe of endless “pocket” nations. Reminiscent of early period Le … Continue reading
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Tagged European politics, Near future science fictiller, thriller novel
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Sam Stephenson, Adam Sobsey et alia’s Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark
To be a fan of a minor league baseball team to be a fan of change. The best thing that can happen to your team’s best players is that they leave, promoted to a higher level. Those who return year … Continue reading
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Tagged Ametican Sports culture, baseball
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