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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
Carol J. Oja’s Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
The 1920s was a formative decade for “serious” American music, and the nexus of musical activity was in New York. Music professor Carol Oja provides an in-depth exploration of the music of the decade and its continuing impact on American … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music
Tagged contemporary music, modernism
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Patricia A. McKillip’s The Book of Atrix Wolfe
Some of the GMR staff were having a conversation about books that are beautifully written, books whose authors obviously love the English language and use it skillfully, extravagantly, profligately, even orgiastically. The Book of Atrix Wolfe is on my list … Continue reading
Three books on American Indian folklore and mythology
Barre Toelken’s The Anguish Of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West Barre Toelken has spent much of the past half-century studying American Indian culture as an outsider on the inside. Adopted by a Navajo family who saved his life … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American mythology, American Indian mythology, folklore
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Roger Zelazny’s Manna from Heaven
‘The dead are too much with us.’ — from Zelazny’s The Isle of The Dead It is indeed worth noting that Manna from Heaven is the first major collection of Zelazny’s short fiction in 15 years. Though some of the … Continue reading
Patricia A. McKillip’s The Changeling Sea
Once upon a time there was a king who fell in love with a woman of the sea. In time, however, he married one of his own people and made her his queen. In anger, the sea woman exacted a … Continue reading
Scott Morse’s The Barefoot Serpent
Craig Clarke, under no duress, wrote this review. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a graphic novel aficionado. To begin with I’ve never even seen a Sandman or anything by Alan Moore, and when I read Road … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics
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Anne K. Kaler, editor’s Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
Anyone who has had to battle their way through an English term paper probably remembers with dread the research books that they had to wade through, scraping a quote here and an inference there, then helplessly staring at how much … Continue reading
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Tagged literary criticism, mystery
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Sharyn November, editor’s Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
GMR’s Editor in Chief, Cat Eldridge, is a wicked, wicked man. He e-mailed me the other day to say, “Firebirds, the new anthology from Sharyn November, just came in. Let’s get it reviewed fast!” “Fine,” I replied. “I’ve got a … Continue reading
Gregory Maguire’s Mirror, Mirror
Liz Milner contributed this review. Gregory Maguire specializes in recasting fairy tales to fit modern preoccupations and sensibilities. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to take stories that everyone knows too well and recycle them. Maguire has done this … Continue reading
Kage Baker’s The Angel in the Darkness
We’re spoiled here at Green Man. We get to read, hear, and watch really cool material that you most likely have never heard of. It’s a tough job but we generally bear up well under the burden of doing this. … Continue reading