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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
Rowan Jacobsen’s American Terroir
Where does your food come from? What elements of the landscape made their way into the flavour of your favourite maple syrup, or your apples? If you haven’t been asking yourself questions along these lines already, Rowan Jacobsen’s American Terroir … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Medicine Road
So one day there’s this desert dog, chasing a jackalope. The dog’s hungry. The jackalope doesn’t want to be dinner. Will the jackalope get away, or fill the dog’s belly? We’ll never know what would have happened, because they run … Continue reading
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Tagged First Zola mythology, Southwestern USA culture
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Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling’s The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People
Here we have an anthology with so broad a range of subject matter that it really seems to call for more than one review. The volume can be seen as, variously: a) a patchwork quilt of fur, feathers, scales and … Continue reading
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Tagged animal folktales, fantasy
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Charles de Lint’s The Very Best of Charles de Lint
In his introduction, Charles de Lint informs us that he approached this project with some trepidation. And with a publisher dead-set on a title like The Very Best of Charles de Lint, it’s not hard to see that any author might … Continue reading
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Peter Faulkner and Peter Preston eds.: William Morris: Centenary Essays
Don’t ask me how to discuss a book of essays on the life and work of a figure who was surely among the last Renaissance men. William Morris was a poet and polemicist, artist and designer, politician and businessman, and … Continue reading
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Tagged anthologies, art, nonfiction
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Neil Gaiman’s Stardust
Debbie Skolnik wrote this review. It has been a l-o-n-g time since a book has so thoroughly transported me back to the world I used to live in as a child. That world, at its best, contained lots of fairy … Continue reading
Allison Thompson’s The Blind Harper Dances: Modern English Country Dances set to airs by Turlough O’Carolan
John O’Regan penned this review. This book is at once fascinating and difficult to review. The fascination lies in the idea of combining the music of Turlough O’Carolan with modern English country dances. The difficulty lies in my own lack … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish Dance, Irish music, Turlough O'Carolan<
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George Berger’s Dance Before the Storm: The Official Story of the Levellers
Chris Woods penned this review. What a pleasant surprise, a musical biography which I actively enjoyed reading! I’m afraid I’m old enough, and difficult enough nowadays, to find that many biographies of bands and artists contain more irritation content than … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock
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Patricia A. McKillip’s Kingfisher
I’ve been reading Patricia A. McKillip’s fiction for more years than I care to admit at this point. It was always different, in one way or another, from her wry and sometimes slapstick humor to her very contemporary sensibility, no … Continue reading
Terry Jones and Alan Ereira’s Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives
Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in a different time and place? Of course you have. And most of us, when we seek to imagine this, choose to read some fictional work which allows us the … Continue reading
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Tagged Medieval history, medieval socitey
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