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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
Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction by M. Elizabeth Ginway
Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction by M. Elizabeth Ginway represents a very specific examination of parts of the Latin American genre scene. Like many literary examinations, this volume expands upon Ginway’s previous … Continue reading
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Holly Ordway’s Tolkien’s Modern Readings
Holly Ordway’s Tolkien’s Modern Readings: Middle-Earth Beyond the Middle Ages is a wonderful new entry in Tolkien studies. Going somewhat against the grain, Ordway spends the pages not only arguing, but providing meticulous proof that the long passed author and … Continue reading
Isabel Yap’s Never Have I Ever
Isabel Yap’s Never Have I Ever is a wonderful collection of clever and inventive stories ranging in genre from fantasy to horror to weird. Yap has a style that will remind readers of authors like Yolen and Blume at times. … Continue reading
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Glen Cook’s Cruel Zinc Melodies
I will admit that it was with no little trepidation that I approached Glen Cook’s Cruel Zinc Melodies for review. Melodies is the twelfth book in his long-running fantasy-noir mystery Garrett, P.I. series, a series I am entirely unfamiliar with, … Continue reading
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Julie Carrick Dalton’s Waiting for the Night Song
Julie Carrick Dalton’s Waiting for the Night Song is a wonderful little thriller focusing on change, fear, and how a small negative experiences can quickly snowball into simething for beyond what might be expected. This is also Dalton’s first novel … Continue reading
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Michael Cannell’s A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind The Rise And Fall Of Murder Inc.
A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind The Rise And Fall Of Murder Inc. is Michael Cannell’s meticulous look at the life of Abe Reles, and the criminal conspiracies he founded and helped to unravel. While the volume starts with Reles’ … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival
Elizabeth Bear has put me in an odd position: I read Blood and Iron, loved it, found it rich, stimulating — altogether an extraordinary book. I’ve now read Carnival, and find myself without much to say. Well, not entirely, but … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s The Chains That You Refuse
I seem to be running across a number of writers for whom the idea of “genre” is as fluid as the idea of a “short story.” Stories are like a painter’s drawings or a composer’s piano studies: they can range … Continue reading
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Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time
Thief of Time, the latest installment in Terry Pratchett’s highly popular Discworld series, contains all the elements that make the series such a hit: Vivid, fish-out-of-water humans caught in a conundrum they must solve by their wits and dogged determination; … Continue reading
J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Hobbit audiobook
I’m a purist when it comes to The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings, which is to say that though I’ve read both of them myriad times I gave up on the films after watching The Fellowship of The … Continue reading