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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: Graphic Literature
Pascal Blanchet’s White Rapids
The history of Canada has not been used for too many movies. We’re a peaceful people, and we seek to live with each other, with as little conflict as possible. No civil wars, no struggle between cowboys and Indians (well … Continue reading
Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus: Volume 1
Most Buffy fans who have gotten their hands on the slew of post-BtVS Season Seven graphic novels already know that it’s a Long Way Home for Ms. Summers, but just how did this wild and crazy ride of hers start … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, comics
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Frank Beddor’s Seeing Redd
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Seeing Redd is the sequel to The Looking Glass Wars, and the second book in The Looking Glass Wars trilogy. The premise of the series is that Alice in Wonderland was Lewis Carroll’s narcotic-fueled … Continue reading
Laurence Hyde’s Southern Cross
Southern Cross is a novel with no words. Not a graphic novel, as we’ve come to understand them, but a series of 118 wood engravings that when “read” together in sequence tells a story of the atomic bomb tests by … Continue reading
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Tagged graphic novel, nonfiction
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Andy Diggle and Goran Sudzuka’s Hellblazer: Lady Constantine
Hellblazer: Lady Constantine is a delightful romp in a series that otherwise can be bloody awful more often than not! It is also true that this series is a relatively rare example of a Hellblazer spin-off miniseries, but then again, … Continue reading
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Tagged comics
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Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. The Looking Glass Wars is a revisionist fairy tale. You know the sort of thing: “What if ‘insert name of story here’ was based on something that really happened?” In this case, the idea … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, fantasy
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Chris Ware’s The Acme Novelty Library #16
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau wrote these words in his classic book Walden, in 1854. Wow — that’s 152 years ago! And, according to the characters in Chris Ware’s most recent graphic novel[ty] … Continue reading
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Tagged comics
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Charles M. Schulz’s The Complete Peanuts, 1959-1960
The Complete Peanuts is an on-going labour of love for editor Gary Groth and designer Seth. And it’s a semi-regular treat to receive the next volume. This is the fifth book so far and we’re up to 1959-60. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged comics
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Michel Rabagliati, Paul Has A Summer Job and Paul Moves Out
Michel Rabagliati grew up in Quebec. A fan of European comics like Asterix and Tintin, he won a Best New Talent Harvey Award in 2000 for the first in his series of books about the young Montrealer Paul, entitled Paul … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, graphic novel
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Ari Berk and Brian Froud’s Goblins
Goblins begins with a disclaimer: THE PUBLISHER CAN ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE PURCHASE OR CASUAL PERUSAL OF THIS WORK. This is important. There are things in this book that you really don’t want to … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, fantasy
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