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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
Charlotte Carter’s Rhode Island Red
Charlotte Carter’s Rhode Island Red is a nice little mystery centering on the author’s recurring detective Nanette Hayes. Charlotte Carter has a number of quality novels under her belt at this point, yet on initial publication in 1997 this was … Continue reading
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Darren Speegle & Michael Bailey’s Prisms
Darren Speegle & Michael Bailey’s Prisms is an anthology centered almost entirely upon the strange matter of point of view. Whole stories exploring the question of changing points of view. The pieces within this collection vary from obviously science fiction … Continue reading
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Sean Hogan’s England’s Screaming
Sean Hogan’s England’s Screaming is an interesting piece of literary studies as fiction. Specifically, it takes a number of icons and figures from British horror and attempts to build a coherent timeline of events assuming they occupy a united world. … Continue reading
Stephen Spotswood’s Fortune Favors the Dead
Stephen Spotswood’s Fortune Favors the Dead is a wonderful bit of throwback fiction, featuring a pair of detectives solving mysteries while sharing a home. It is hardly a new formula, yet works very well. The case here deals with a … Continue reading
Albert E. Cowdrey’s Revelation & Other Tales of Fantascience
Albert E. Cowdrey’s Revelation & Other Tales of Fantascience includes an assortment of stories by the author dating from the year 2000 up to 2015. They are varied in style and subject matter, yet each includes definite style familiar to … Continue reading
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Stephen R. Bissette, Mark Morris, Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon and Stephen Vol’s Studio of Screams
Studio of Screams is a fascinating piece of collaborative storytelling. Framed as the novelizations and interviews relating to a lost British film studio, this volume is a clear love letter to those 60’s horror films remembered well from the era. … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny’s Unicorn Variations
I’ve been collecting and reading this author for well over twenty years now. (Today I received A Checklist of Roger Zelazny, a chapbook that Christopher Stephens did in 1991. Bliss — more reading to look forward to!) Even though he … Continue reading
Roger Zelazny’s Roadmarks
Roger Zelazny’s Roadmarks is set upon a road that travels through time, with a nexus placed every few decades, or sometimes centuries, where a handful of people are able to get on and off. While there is a plot involving a … Continue reading
Jane Yolen’s Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
I said in a review of one of Jane Yolen’s books that my wish last Yule season “for a publisher to reprint [Jane Yolen’s] essay collection Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood has been answered. … Continue reading
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Lindsey Davis’ A Comedy of Terrors
Lindsey Davis’ A Comedy of Terrors is the latest in her Flavia Alba series. Featuring a series of business related crimes and murders, often centering upon nuts. This is an amusing setup, but the story takes itself as seriously as … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, mystery
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