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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- 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
Category Archives: Books
Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall’s Ashley Hutchings: Always Chasing Rainbows
It’s been several years since the publication of Ashley Hutchings: The Guv’nor & The Rise Of Folk Rock, the first volume in a trilogy of books covering the life and astounding career of AH. So rich and multi faceted is the … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span
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Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall’s Ashley Hutchings: The Guv’nor & the Rise of Folk Rock
To some of us the subject of this book is, if not God, at least the musical equivalent to the pope. Name a group you like and have followed over the years, and there is a fair chance that Mr. … Continue reading
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Tagged Airport Convention, English folk rock, Steeleye Span
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Katharine Briggs’ The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
If you’re reading this publication, and you haven’t been introduced to the work of Katharine Briggs, then we really should do something to amend that. (Ms. Briggs, Constant Reader of the ‘Edge’og. Constant Reader, Ms. Briggs.) This re-issue of <cite>The … Continue reading
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Tagged British folklore, Fairies, Katharine Briggs
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Tim Lebbon & Christopher Golden’s Mind the Gap
Hidden, magical London is all the rage these days. First there was Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, then China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun. And now there’s Mind the Gap, a collaborative effort between American novelist and comics writer Christopher Golden and British horror novelist Tim … Continue reading
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Tagged Hidden Cities, horror, New Orleans, Post-Katrina fiction
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Tim Lebbon & Christopher Golden’s The Map of Moments
Readers who come to The Map of Moments looking for something similar to Mind the Gap are in for a rude shock. Where the first novel of the Hidden Cities was essentially YA, The Map of Moments is steeped in sex and death, a whirlwind … Continue reading
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Tagged Hidden Cities, horror, New Orleans, Post-Katrina
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Terri Windling’s The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors
Diane McDonough wrote this review. Fairy tales have their roots in the far distant past, in legends and tales of survival as the heroines and heroes venture into the world, slaying demons and surviving endless trials of strength only to … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, folk tales
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Jane Yolen’s The One-Armed Queen
Marian McHugh wrote this review. The One-Armed Queen is the third book in Yolen’s Great Alta series. It is a book that Yolen has claimed she never intended to write, so she purposefully killed off the main characters in White … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, Feminist literature
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Jane Yolen’s The Books of Great Alta
Marian McHugh wrote this review. Both of these books have re-released recently with the cover art shown below. The Books of Great Alta is the compilation of Yolen’s two books Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna. It is the … Continue reading
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Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose
Eric Eller wrote this review. Though fairy tales were originally told to adults, they became a traditional literature for children and lost much of their original message for grown people. However, the best ones retain an ability to entertain adults … Continue reading
On Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose
I’ve so many favorite Yolen stories and I am so grateful to her for them all, but I suppose that right now my favorite is ‘Briar Rose’, her re-telling of Sleeping Beauty within the framework of the Holocaust. There are … Continue reading
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