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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
David Ebenbach’s How To Mars
David Ebenbach’s How To Mars is a fascinating bit of comedy built from a series of shorter pieces into a novel. A group of people are on an ill-considered mission to chastely colonize Mars. One of them has gotten pregnant. … Continue reading
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Jamison Green’s Becoming a Visible Man
Jamison Green’s Becoming a Visible Man is an excellent autobiography of an at this point fairly well-known trans rights activist and expert. It also represents an excellent tool for individuals seeking to better understand the trans man, the issues he … Continue reading
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Ae-ran Kim’s My Brilliant Life
Ae-ran Kim’s first novel My Brilliant Life, translated expertly by Chi-Young Kim, is a fascinating tale told from the point-of-view of a young man dying of what is essentially old age. The condition known as Progeria is relatively well known … Continue reading
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Marjorie Liu’s The Tangleroot Palace
Marjorie Liu’s The Tangleroot Palace collects a number of the author’s shorter works, including the one that gives the volume its title. Most of them fit well into the wheelhouse of the woman who gave the world Monstress, and her … Continue reading
J.S. Dewes’ The Last Watch
J.S. Dewes’ The Last Watch is the first novel in a planned series. It combines an imperial setting in the far future in familiar manner, and as a result Dewes needs more to distinguish her work. Fortunately good plotting and an … Continue reading
Fred Saberhagen’s The Face of Apollo: Book of the Gods Volume 1
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. I’ve enjoyed reading Fred Saberhagen’s novels for almost twenty years now. He is very talented, having the ability to breathe life into the worlds which he creates, worlds which become, for all intents and … Continue reading
Seabury Quinn’s Roads
Gary Turner wrote this review. This is about as perfect of a “facsimile reproduction” as I could imagine. When I removed the book from its impressive box (the book comes in a gift box and includes a pamphlet with the … Continue reading
P. Djèlí Clark’s A Master of Djinn audiobook
I’ve been looking forward to P. Djèlí Clark writing a full length novel in what he is now calling his ongoing Dead Djinn series ever since I first listened to The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo, both … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, urban fantasy
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection
No, this didn’t come just now as a review copy. This is a retro review of the first volume of a series that is without doubt the best of its kind ever done. The Kinrowan Estate Library has a full set … Continue reading
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Constantine Cavafy’s The Complete Poems of Cavafy
Modern Greece has produced an amazing body of literature including works by such luminaries as Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, and others. One of the most significant members of this select community is the poet Constantine Cavafy. The Complete Poems of … Continue reading