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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
Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
It is difficult to think of an American ghost story more well-known than that of Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Though Irving’s original sources for the stories may have been local folklore based on the same … Continue reading
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Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
By right and nature, all October babies should love Something Wicked This Way Comes. It is a love letter to autumn, and to the Halloween season in particular, a gorgeous take on maturity and self-acceptance and all the dark temptations … Continue reading
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Richelle Mead, Succubus Revealed
Ever since succubus Georgina Kincaid got back together with the current love of her life, writer Seth Mortensen, things have been a little weird. Workplace drama caused her to quit her beloved bookstore job, and now she’s working as an … Continue reading
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Ilona Andrews, On the Edge and Bayou Moon
Welcome to the Edge. It’s a no-man’s land stretching across the United States, created by the overlap between two alternate dimensions. On one side, you have the Broken, a world of science and reason, otherwise known as the mundane world … Continue reading
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Michael Swanwick, Dancing With Bears
Michael Swanwick’s Dancing With Bears is what Dostoyevsky would have written, if he’d ever attempted a post-apocalyptic steampunk-esque comedy of manners-slash-heist-story featuring genetically engineered virgins, genocidal robot AIs intent on resurrecting the corpse of Lenin, mad monks, orgies, and a … Continue reading
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Lev Grossman’s The Magician King
Lev Grossman’s newest novel serves as a self-aware take on the hero’s quest. The Magician King picks up more or less where the previous book left off. Quentin Coldwater and his friends are living in the magical world of Fillory, … Continue reading
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Steven Brust’s Tiassa
Tiassa is book thirteen in Steven Brust’s Taltos Cycle, the ongoing adventures of Vlad Taltos set in a universe in which the world is shared between humans and Dragaerans — or between humans and Easterners, depending on your point of … Continue reading
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Simon R. Green’s Blue Moon Rising
Once upon a time, there was a brave and noble prince. Charged by his father, the stalwart king of a small but ancient land, the prince set off on a quest to slay a dragon. Armed and armored, riding a … Continue reading
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Christopher Golden’s The Monster’s Corner
The stated intent of The Monster’s Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes, the Christopher Golden-edited anthology, is nothing if not ambitious. The concept —a collection of stories that show monsters as sympathetic, not heroic – is tricky enough on its own, … Continue reading
Tim Powers’ The Bible Repairman and Other Stories
Tim Powers’ first collection of short fiction in over half a decade, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories is a potent six-story collection that plays effortlessly with many of the author’s favorite themes. Zhlubby, burned-out protagonists, mysterious women, magical rituals … Continue reading
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