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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
Gene Kannenberg’s 500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate Guide
My, that was fun! I sat down earlier this afternoon with a notepad and pen in hand to make notes about 500 Essential Graphic Novels for review. Bad mistake, a really bad mistake. Why so, you ask? Because after hours … Continue reading
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Alexander Irvine’s The Vertigo Encyclopedia
Ahhh, been muckin’ ’bout the Green Man library? What were you looking for? Guides to fantastic literature to give you ideas ’bout what to read next? Go left by the card catalog, turn down the stone stairs to the right, … Continue reading
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Anthony Johnston and Wilson Tortosa’s Wolverine Volume 1: Prodigal Son
Does anyone remember walking into dollar stores and seeing the knockoff toys? You know, all the “Spider-Mans” and “Battman” and “Wunder Woman” toys in garishly wrong green, orange, or magenta costumes. The toys made by cheap distributors who thought neon … Continue reading
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James Stoddard’s The High House (Chapter One)
Chapter One: THE GREAT HOUSE The High House, Evenmere, that lifts its gabled roofs among tall hills overlooking a country of ivy and hawthorn and blackberries sweet but small as the end of a child’s finger, has seldom been seen … Continue reading
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Charlotte Crofts’ Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film and Television
Liz Milner wrote this review. Angela Carter is to writing what Jackson Pollock is to painting; she flings words on the page in wild, almost obscene abundance. Alliteration, assonance — all the tricks in a writer’s gig bag are scattered … Continue reading
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Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Relentless Moon
The Relentless Moon is the third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s series of prequels to her immensely successful novelette The Lady Astronaut of Mars, following on the heels of The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. Kowal has described it … Continue reading
James Swallow’s Shadow
James Swallow’s Shadow is a gripping thriller in the style of classic Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum. The plot begins with the escape of a white supremacist terrorist leader, and the kidnapping of a North Korean defector with brilliant skills … Continue reading
Marie Belloc Lowndes’ The Chianti Flask
This is a most enjoyable little story featuring the agony of a murder trial and the bizzare nature of what can often follow. This is a wonderful twisting mystery that deserves more attention than it currently gets. Although as in … Continue reading
Joan Passey’s Cornish Horrors
Joan Passey’s Cornish Horrors: Tales From the Land’s End is a well crafted theme anthology focusing upon strange and horrific tales relating to Cornwall. The stories in this collection were written over the better part of a century, ranging from … Continue reading
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Gene Wolfe’s Sword & Citadel
Gene Wolfe’s Sword & Citadel is a nice new omnibus of the third and fourth volumes in the series known as The Book of the New Sun. This new edition contains two classics of science fantasy The Sword of the … Continue reading