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- 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
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Books
Douglas B. Green’s Singing Cowboys
Singing Cowboys! Just picture them, all dressed in their flashy Nudie shirts, plunking on a Martin D-45, perched on their faithful palomino or roan, singing their hearts out to the beautiful daughter of the local ranch owner. Gene Autry, or … Continue reading
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Tagged American film history, singing cowboys, TV history, Westerns
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Nicholas Griffin’s Dizzy City
This book arrived in the Green Man mailroom some time ago as an uncorrected proof. The brownies put it into my review pile I think because I’ve reviewed other books about people who arrive in New York City and find … Continue reading
Paul Green’s Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games
Craig Clarke wrote this review. Traditional Westerns offer some of the best reading around, but an enthusiast also appreciates a blending of genres now and then. Westerns with crime fiction tropes are fairly easy to find; that’s just your average … Continue reading
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Tagged Weird western
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Giorgia Grilli’s Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins: the Governess as Provacteur; and Valerie Lawson’s Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
Faced with two books on a similar theme, where one is a critical analysis and the other a biography, I am generally inclined to the critical analysis. As an academic historian, I regard biography with a certain amount of suspicion. … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, fantasy, literary criticism, literary fiction
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Chris Marie Green’s Night Rising: Vampire Babylon, Book 1
While recovering from the near-career suicidal move of assaulting a major movie star (he had it coming), stuntwoman Dawn Madison is contacted by an unusual Hollywood PI firm Limpet and Associates, because her father has gone missing. And even though … Continue reading
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Tagged urban fantasy
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Martin H. Greenberg and Brittany A. Koren, Ed.s’ Single White Vampire Seeks Same
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Some people spend their entire life looking for love and never, ever find it. Love is elusive, and oft times very fickle; it can be an impossible task to find one’s “soul-mate.” And that … Continue reading
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Tagged urban fantasy
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Paul Grushkin & Dennis King’s The Art of Modern Rock
A long time ago, more years than I’d like to count, I was the assistant editor of my high school yearbook. Okay, it was 1968 and we had an art editor who was deeply influenced by the posters coming from … Continue reading
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Tagged poster art, rock and roll
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Meri Allen’s Fatal Fudge Swirl
Meri Allen’s Fatal Fudge Swirl is the latest in her Ice Cream Shop Mystery series. As the third volume in the series, the book not only represents a run finding its stride but also introduces a decided holiday theme. The … Continue reading
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312
Kim Stanley Robinson fooled me again. The main body of his prose in 2312 is so calm and measured, coolly analytical and matter of fact, that I must have been expecting the Solar System-wide conflict that it portrays to be … Continue reading
Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver
Ordinarily, when you read about the great discoveries of the Enlightenment and the lives of the men who made them, you get quite a sterile view of those lives. In Wikipedia’s entry on Isaac Newton, for instance: “In June 1661, … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, Neal Stephenson
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