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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
Kage Baker’s In the Garden of Iden, Sky Coyote, Mendoza in Hollywood, and The Graveyard Game
The Company series to date consists of four delightful novels that detail the serio-comic (with a very dark edge) adventures of the immortal cyborgs of Dr. Zeus, Inc., a for-profit company that has existed for millennia, giving eternal life to … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction
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Fred Saberhagen’s God of the Golden Fleece: Books of The Gods Volume IV
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. I can’t think of a better way to spend a rainy spring weekend than with my nose poked into a good book. I spent this weekend with Fred Saberhagen’s God of the Golden Fleece, … Continue reading
Francis James Child’s The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
…true popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature… — Francis James Child So it only took a century for a corrected edition of the first volume of the most famous ballad collection in the Anglo-Celtic tradition to be published. Was … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Ballads
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Roald Dahl’s The Best of Roald Dahl
Craig Clarke penned this review. Sure, you’ve read his books for kids. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda; these are wonderful representations of the twisted imagination of Roald Dahl. But they feel a little restrained, … Continue reading
Andrew F. Smith’s The Tomato in America
The tomato is one of the most popular “vegetables” in America, where thousands of tons of them are consumed every year. They’re similarly popular around the world. They’re also the subject of a small mountain of folklore. And like all … Continue reading
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Tagged food and drink, nonfiction
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Mort Rosenblum’s A Goose in Toulouse
Mort Rosenblum, a longtime reporter based in Paris, used his connections, his considerable interviewing and writing skills, and his passion for good food to create A Goose in Toulouse, a personal odyssey in search of the future of French cuisine. … Continue reading
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Terry Pratchett’s The Last Hero
What happens when a hero is really good at what he does? He gets old, like the rest of us. But after he’s outlived his usefulness, he doesn’t know how to be anything but a hero. At least, that’s the … Continue reading
William R. Eakin’s Redgunk Tales
Welcome to Redgunk, Mississippi. It’s a town with a couple of hundred residents, several of whom have been abducted by aliens and many of whom are dating them. It’s a town with a fake mummy in the five-and-dime, not that … Continue reading
David Hajdu’s Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan were key figures in 20th century American popular music. Joan’s sister Mimi and Mimi’s husband Richard Fariña were lesser lights, but important figures in the folk and folk-rock scenes. David Hajdu’s book of “the lives … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music
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Hunter Davies’ The Quarrymen
I’ve been a Beatles fan from just about the beginning. I started collecting their albums at age 8 in early 1964, just after they first hit America. I’ll forever regret that I didn’t see their Ed Sullivan Show appearances. My … Continue reading