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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
Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, editors’ The Future is Queer
I seem to be doing a land-office business in theme anthologies lately. Among these, it seems almost as a matter of course, are a number dealing with issues of gender, sexuality, and sexual identity. The most recent to cross my … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction
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Chris Ware’s The Acme Novelty Library #16
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau wrote these words in his classic book Walden, in 1854. Wow — that’s 152 years ago! And, according to the characters in Chris Ware’s most recent graphic novel[ty] … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics
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Charles M. Schulz’s The Complete Peanuts, 1959-1960
The Complete Peanuts is an on-going labour of love for editor Gary Groth and designer Seth. And it’s a semi-regular treat to receive the next volume. This is the fifth book so far and we’re up to 1959-60. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged comics
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Brian Froud and Ari Berk’s Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Letters
The third volume exploring the world of notorious Lady Angelica Cottington, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Letters brings us a collection of her correspondence, saved and carefully pressed along with more of her victims . . . er, specimens . . … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Froud, fantasy
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Judith Berman’s Bear Daughter
Wendy Donahue wrote this review. An extraordinary novel by Judith Berman, Bear Daughter is a sequel to the story “Lord Stink” (Asimov’s, August 1997, reprinted in Lord Stink and Other Stories, Small Beer Press, 2002). Cloud, a 12-year-old who has … Continue reading
Isabel Allende’s Zorro
There’s just nothing like reviewing a piece of fiction to get you thinking about things you wouldn’t otherwise have thought about at all … When I was a kid, all the major television networks were scheduling shows with a Western … Continue reading
Ellen Datlow, Kelley Link and Gavin Grant, editors’ The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection
What’s better in this world than the best? That’s what I asked myself when I received an advance review copy of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Like the seventeen before it, it promises some of the finest stories and … Continue reading
Gregory Maguire’s Son of a Witch
Gili Bar-Hilel contributed this review. If you liked Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, you will probably like its sequel, for here is more of the same. Wicked did very well, and has been … Continue reading
Patricia McKillip’s The House on Parchment Street
Book cover art can be a tricky topic. Publishers insist they take many things into consideration when choosing cover art. They balance things like branding, marketing, genre identification. They consider such factors as target audience, and author recognizability from book … Continue reading
C.P. Lee’s Like the Night (Revisited): Bob Dylan and the road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall; and Derek Barker’s Isis: A Bob Dylan Anthology
The 1966 concert at the Manchester Free Trade Hall is the most legendary single performance of Bob Dylan’s career; perhaps of the entire rock era. This concert, at which an irate fan shouted “Judas!” at Dylan, almost immediately entered the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, folk music, folk-rock, rock and roll
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