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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
Philip Pullman’s Lyra’s Oxford (print and audiobook)
‘Lyra’s knowledge had great gaps in it, like a map of the world largely eaten by mice….’ — The Golden Compass Now where was I? Ahhh, going through the afternoon post before anyone else gets to it. What’s this? A … Continue reading
Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The immensely popular Discworld series has its first entry in the field of young readers’ books with The Amazing Maurice. It’s a mostly successful effort, built on Terry Pratchett’s brand of satiric humor, which here is toned down a bit … Continue reading
Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea is the ironic name of a leaking, creaking hulk of a ship that is making its last crossing of the Atlantic, with a handful of first-class passengers and a belly full of the dregs of Europe, … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, Irish music
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William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition
Folklore used to be songs, dances and tales told around the fire, in the inns, before the hearth, that connected us with our past. The first mass media, radio and television, put the hearth in an electrical box that we … Continue reading
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Tagged literary science fiction, speculative fiction
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F. Paul Wilson omnibus: The Tomb, Legacies, Conspiracies, All The Rage, and Hosts
“I can’t help wondering why these New World Order types should bother with an armed takeover. I mean, considering how nowadays people are slugging away at two and three jobs to make ends meet, how Mr. and Mrs. Average American … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, urban fantasy
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Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot and The Minpins unabridged audiobook, read by Joanna Lumley
Craig Clarke penned this review. I never read Roald Dahl as a child. I was introduced to his wickedly dark mainstream fiction through adaptations on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and have been a fan of that area of his career for … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature
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Anthony Bourdain’s A Cook’s Tour
“How about this?” I suggested to my editor. “I travel around the world, doing whatever I want. I stay in fine hotels and I stay in hovels. I eat scary, exotic, wonderful food, doing cool stuff like I’ve seen in … Continue reading
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Tagged food and drink
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, editors’ The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection
If someone were to assign awards to the roundup of Year’s Best books that invariably grace the shelves during the middle of each year, those volumes edited by Silverberg or Hartwell or Datlow and Windling or other sundry people, then … Continue reading
Kage Baker’s Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers
There are a lot of strange people in San Francisco, and if you work there, you soon grow used to occasional peculiarities in your customers; but the girl behind the cash register at Ghirardelli’s decided that this took weirdness to … Continue reading
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling’s The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
Once in a while we get a publication that’s so good that I as, editor of Green Man Review, say, ‘That’s mine, all mine!’ The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, which I’ve known about for over a year … Continue reading