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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
John Crowley’s Little, Big
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Practically by definition, fantasy has often been the most retrograde of all of the current popular genres of literature. It is the one style of writing that is most intent on not only looking backward in … Continue reading
N. J. Dawood’s Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Brendan Foreman penned this review. As popular as they have been in the Western world, The Thousand and One Nights as a piece of literature has never been regarded very well in the Arab world. Written in its highly colloquial, easily read style, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand and One Nights, Arabian folktales
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Charles de Lint’s The Riddle of The Wren
Naomi De Bruyn penned this review. If one chooses to, one can go back and find the time when any author was unknown. For Canadian fantasist Charles de Lint, that time was at an end with the release of Riddle of the … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Eyes Like Leaves
It all begins with a dream, a long-awaited summoning that calls the tree-wizard Tarn into action after ages of quiet waiting. Compelled by the god known as Hafarl the Summerlord to seek out those with the Summerlord’s blood in their … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s The Stratford Man: Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth
The Stratford Man is what Elizabeth Bear describes as “two tightly linked novels, Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth, a continuation of Bear’s monumental series The Promethean Age that brings the series to a new level of richness. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabeth Bear, Elizabethan Era, fey
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Kevin Crossley-Holland’s The Seeing Stone: Book One of the Arthur Trilogy
Rebecca Swain penned this review. I found this novel for children aged 9-12 delightful and informative. It is the story of Arthur de Caldicot, a curious, ambitious young boy growing up in medieval England, near the Welsh border. Arthur has a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthurian mythos
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Terri Windling and Delia Sherman’s The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller’s Guide to the Edge of Faerie
Bordertown is a city that was created (or discovered, if you’re a believer) by Tor editor Terri Windling. Like all places magical, it’s the sort of city you can always find–if you are meant to. It’s a place that has grown … Continue reading
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Tagged Bordertown, fantasy, Terri Windling
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J.E.A. Tyler’s The Complete Tolkien Companion
This is the second revision of The Tolkien Companion, originally written by J.E.A. Tyler and published in 1976. Tyler first updated The Tolkien Companion in 1979 — entitling it The New Tolkien Companion — after the posthumous publication of The Silmarillion in 1978 (Tolkien died in 1973) … Continue reading
Nancy Springer’s I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot
I remember reading The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart in high school. It was the first time I had encountered a vivid, realistic “anti-hero.” In her portrayal of Mordred, the son fated to be the downfall of his father, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthurian mythology
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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt’s Gods and Heroes of the Celts
“The gods of the Celts, as they are presented here, are quite unlike the gods of classical [read: Greek] mythology. They are not patrons of love or war or of various crafts, nor have they a home in heaven. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic mythology
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