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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
Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges’s The Great Fables Crossover
Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges writers; Mark Buckingham, Russ Braun, Tony Atkins, Andrew Pepey, Jose Marzan, Jr. and Dan Gree artists The Great Fables Crossover takes place entirely within the Fables universe, pulling together characters and plot threads from the … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables, Volume 3: Storybook Love, Volume 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers, and Volume 5: The Mean Seasons
Storybook Love: Bill Willingham writer; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha artists March of the Wooden Soldiers: Bill Willingham writer; Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha, P. Craig Russell artists The Mean Seasons: Bill Willingham writer; Tony Akins, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: Sons of Empire
Bill Willingham writer; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Michael Allred, Andrew Pepoy artists In this ninth installment in the ongoing Fables series, Bill Willingham is back in top form, delivering solid character development and intriguing plot in spades. A mix of … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: The Dark Ages
Bill Willingham author, Steve Leialoha artist With this twelfth collection of his award-winning series, Bill Willingham tackles the aftermath of the Fables’ victorious war with the Adversary, examining the effects on the Fables, Gepetto and the lands he formerly ruled. … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape, and Jack of Hearts
Bill Willingham author, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins and Andrew Pepoy artists Jack of Fables is very much a “your mileage may vary” sort of series. Whether or not you like it depends pretty much entirely on whether or not you … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: The Good Prince
Bill Willingham author; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Aaron Alexovich, Andrew Pepoy artists When a series is as consistently excellent as Fables, it can be extremely difficult to decide which is the finest issue or volume. However, The Good Prince, the … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables, Volume 6: Homelands, and Volume 7: Arabian Nights (and Days)
Bill Willingham’s wonderfully developed series about fairy tales living among us today (see Fables 1-2 and 3-5) extends two more volumes with Homelands and Arabian Nights. Artists on Homelands are Mark Buckingham, David Hahn and Steve Leialoha; artists on Arabian … Continue reading
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Christyne Berzsenyi’s Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inquiry With Resistant Responders
Christyne Berzsenyi’s Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inquiry With Resistant Responders looks at the classic series in a detailed analytical light. Books about Columbo are nothing new, but the depth of this book serves well to prove that the series can … Continue reading
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Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a short horror novella dealing with the classic setup where a group of friends go to a haunted house. It is an old storytelling tool, but one that has proven effective time and … Continue reading
James Rollins’ The Starless Crown
James Rollins’ The Starless Crown is the first volume in a new series by the well known author. Like many epic fantasies, it focuses on a group of adventurers making a quest to deal with an imminent problem. The ways … Continue reading