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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
John Ostrander and Timothy Truman’s Grimjack: Killer Instinct
I bust people out of prison, hunt down vampires, fight alien gods – all the fun jobs other people are too squeamish or too polite to do themselves. Call me a mercenary. Call me an assassin. Call me a villain. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, urban fantasy
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Mike Allen, ed.’s Clockwork Phoenix
Deborah J. Brannon wrote this review. The subtitle featured on the cover of Clockwork Phoenix is “tales of beauty and strangeness” and, with Mike Allen’s introduction, he immediately attemps to deliver on this promise. Readers are treated to an extended … Continue reading
Yasmine Galenorn’s Dragon Wytch
Yasmine Galenorn’s urban fantasy romance series began with the three books Witchling, Changling, and Darkling, which dealt with the adventures of the D’Artigo sisters Camille (a witch), Delilah (a werecat), and Menolly (a vampire). All three are of half-human, half-Fae … Continue reading
John Shirley’s War Lord and Subterranean
In the wake of his Constantine movie novelization, John Shirley went on to pen two original novels about Vertigo’s world-weary magus John Constantine, both published in 2006. With these novels, Shirley is clearly trying to reach two different sets of … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, urban fantasy
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Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
Christopher White wrote this review. Originally published in 1995, written (presumably) in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Snow Crash is being republished in a variety of formats and editions, including a signed and numbered limited edition hardcover run of … Continue reading
Michael Haag’s Alexandria Illustrated, Cairo Illustrated, and Vintage Alexandria
If you read these pages with any regularity, you may have noticed by now that I am hopelessly enamored of books about modern Egypt. Fiction, history, travel, you name it, I’ll gladly give it a try. So I was beside … Continue reading
Janis Ian’s Society’s Child: My Autobiography, and Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection
Normally here at the Green Man building we keep books and CDs separate. Oh sure, in every editor’s office the shelves are filled with both, and down in the jungle where the writers dwell the floors are littered with CDs … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music
Tagged Americana music, folk music, music, Singer-Songwriter
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Gary Gygax’s The Anubis Murders
Say what you will about The Anubis Murders, Paizo’s Planet Stories line is a wonderful thing. Dedicated to keeping influential works of science fiction and fantasy in print for a new generation of fans, Planet Stories has resurrected classics like … Continue reading
David Quantick’s The Clash
In the year 2000, a series of books was published under the imprint “Kill Your Idols.” They were published in a neat little format, black covers with a b&w photo of the subject and his name as the title. Neil Young, Tom … Continue reading
Naguib Mahfouz’s Karnak Café, and Morning and Evening Talk
Naguib Mahfouz, who died in 2006, was a prolific and highly regarded novelist and essayist, born in Egypt in 1911, when that country was still a “protectorate” of the United Kingdom. He wrote in Arabic, but many of his works … Continue reading
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Tagged library fiction
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