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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Category Archives: Books
Mary Stewart’s The Wicked Day
Jayme Lynn Blaschke wrote this review. The Arthurian legend has proved irresistible to writers over the years, from Thomas Malory to T.H.White. I first ran across Mary Stewart’s take on Camelot back in 1984, right after The Wicked Day spent … Continue reading
John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax’s American Ballads and Folk Songs, and Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads; and John W. Work’s American Negro Songs
The father-and-son team of John and Alan Lomax played a pivotal role in preserving American folk songs at a time when they may have stood in danger of being supplanted by recorded popular music. And they played the role of … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music
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Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak’s Brundibar
Rebecca Scott wrote this review. Pepicek (very small) and Aninku (his sister, even smaller) have a problem: their mother is very sick. The doctor told them to go to town to get milk, but how can two children who have … Continue reading
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World folk tales and fables: an omnibus review
Victor Montejo’s The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables (Curbstone Press, 1991) Anita Brenner’s The Boy Who Could Do Anything and Other Mexican Folk Tales (Linnet Books, 1992) George F. Schultz’s Vietnamese Legends (Charles E. Tuttle Company, … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, folk tales, folklore
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S.E. Hinton’s Hawkes Harbour
S.E. Hinton has had an interesting career. She sold her first (and subsequently most well known) novel The Outsiders, when she was only 17. That was in 1967. In the years since, her career has been punctuated by long breaks … Continue reading
Stewart Lee Allen’s The Devil’s Cup: Coffee, The Driving Force in History
Pinky Vincent wrote this review. You need be no joe junkie to sip the pleasures of The Devil’s Cup — meaning the book. Stewart Lee Allen has taken on the seemingly onerous task of merging a traveler’s tale with a … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, food and drink, travel
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James S. A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods
The creators of The Expanse (both the nine books and the popular six-season streaming series) are back with the first book of a new series. The Mercy of Gods is an utterly absorbing alien invasion first contact thriller that I … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s The Folded Sky
Dr. Sunya Song is an expert at teasing information out of ancient archives. She has travelled long and far to an exotic location to do just that, surviving an attack by pirates along the way, only to discover that her … Continue reading
Ivan Day’s Ice Cream: A History
Ask anyone waving around a Drumstick cone or Klondike Bar where ice cream comes from, and you’re lucky if you get a smart-aleck response like “the freezer.” Ice cream may be near universally loved (there’s an ice cream truck going … Continue reading
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Three 2025 novels from notable authors
Egyptian Motherlode by David Sandner and Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Press 2025 This book is a series of acid trips taken during a series of concerts by a series of people who are all connected, who perform in the same concerts, … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s funk, A Far Better Thing, A Tale of Two Cities, acid trips, artificial universes, David Sandner, Dickens, Egyptian Motherlode, H.G. Parry, Jacob Weisman, Mary G. Thompson, multiverses, music, One Level Up
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