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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
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- 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
Jo Walton’s The King’s Peace
Lenora Rose wrote this review. Jo Walton’s first published novel The King’s Peace helped earn her the 2002 John W. Campbell award for best new writer. This alternate mythology novel, the first half of a duology, is not as compelling … Continue reading
Jo Walton’s Half a Crown
In the conclusion to her Small Change trilogy, which began with Farthing and continued with Ha’Penny, Jo Walton returns to a postwar Britain that has negotiated peace with Hitler in exchange for a supposed autonomy. In reality, fascism has infiltrated … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, speculative fiction
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Jo Walton’s Ha’Penny
Jo Walton’s 2006 novel Farthing was set in an imagined Britain-as-it-might-have-been, if instead of battling Hitler the British had let him have continental Europe in exchange for leaving them their island of autonomy and freedom. As the story unfolded, though, … Continue reading
Jo Walton’s An Informal History of the Hugos
Do you like reading what other people have to say about books? I know, silly question, because here you are reading a book review in a blog dedicated to book, music and other reviews. That makes it easy for me … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, reference works, science fiction
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F. Paul Wilson’s The Haunted Air
As I said in my omnibus look at the previous volumes in this series, ‘Sometimes why we review something here at Green Man is as interesting as what we review. I honestly had not planned on reviewing this series, as … Continue reading
Ben Yagoda’s The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song
“They don’t write songs like that anymore!” You’ve probably said that about some song from your own youth or young adult years, just as your parents and maybe even grandparents said about their old favorites. Every generation says this about … Continue reading
Caroline Stevermer’s The Glass Magician
Here’s a graceful, lyrical first-in-series novel about shapeshifters in New York of long-ago from the fantasy author who brought us A College of Magics, River Rats, and the fabulous Sorcery and Cecilia series. The first part of Caroline Stevermer’s The Glass … Continue reading
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Ken Grimwood’s Replay
Ken Grimwood’s Replay is something of a classic of science fiction, a strange piece about living one’s life over and again repeatedly, with a set of metaphorical points that seem rather obvious. Jeff has a mediocre job as a journalist … Continue reading
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David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives
David Wojnarowicz was recognized in the 1990s as a writer, performance artist, photographer, and, in one critic’s view, a “provocateur” who put his stamp on the decade. Born in New Jersey in 1954, Wojnarowicz dropped out of school at 16 … Continue reading
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James H. Schmitz’ Agent of Vega and Other Stories
A while back, Baen Books reissued the stories of James H. Schmitz, concentrating on the cycle centered around the Hub and the adventures of Trigger Argee and Telzy Amberdon, super-heroines who are somewhere between Barbie and Wonder Woman. We’ve also … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, short fiction
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