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- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
- What’s New for the 4th of January: Favorite books and music of 2025
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Charles and Alice Pay a Visit (A Letter to Owyn)
- What’s New for the 12th of October
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Pudding Contest
- What’s New for the 28th of September: Appalachia in books, music and more
- A Kinrown Estate story: Autumn is Upon Us
- What’s New for the 14th of September: Books, film and music with a piratical theme; plus Corsican polyphony, Balkan sevdah, Americana music, Hardanger fiddle with reindeer, Latin jazz and piano trios
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
- New SF from James S. A. Corey; Terry Gillian’s Excalibur; Rolling Stones do Aaron Copland’s ‘A Fanfare for The Common Man’; An offbeat history of coffee; an interview with Russian folk singer Zhenya Wind; and a grab bag of folk music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Waltzing Matilda
- What’s New for the 17th of August: Lots of Cropredy reports and reviews, and some new jazz and Americana;
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Dragon
- What’s New for the 3rd of August: A mix of Heinlein reviews; new jazz out of Vermont and a grab bag of archival reviews; Italian American food writing, and more
Tag Archives: fantasy
Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete
Jean Cocteau’s sumptuous black and white retelling of this beloved fairy tale is inarguably the finest version committed to celluloid. Drawing heavily from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s 18th century written version, Cocteau wrote La Belle et la Bete’s story and … Continue reading
Tim Pratt’s Hart & Boot & Other Stories
If there is any justice at all in this universe, Tim Pratt will someday be as wealthy and famous as Neil Gaiman. Why do I say this? Because he’s every bit as good a writer as Neil is now. So … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, short fiction
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Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #6
Flytrap #6 is the latest issue of this little jewel of a ‘zine published twice a year by Tropism Press. As usual, this issue of Flytrap includes the quirky combination of personal newsletter and literary magazine that gives it so … Continue reading
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Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #5
Flytrap is a twice yearly zine from Tropism Press, except when it isn’t because the editors were on their honeymoon (see the pictures of Hawaii which illustrate this issue). Such eclectic elements are part of what makes this zine so … Continue reading
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Tim Pratt’s Sympathy For The Devil
Pleased to mee-choo. Yeah, I said it. And no, this isn’t a collection of stories about The Rolling Stones, try again. Yep, it’s all Lucifer, all the time in this collection. Editor Tim Pratt collects some of his favorite stories … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, horror, short fiction
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Heather Shaw’s When We Were Six
While I have admired Heather Shaw’s creative contributions to Flytrap, the zine she co-produces with Tim Pratt, When We Were Six is the first chance I have had to read her fiction. Some aspects of this new chapbook, such as … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, short fiction
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Tim Pratt’s Little Gods
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Every generation, there are writers who emerge who seem to get it a little better than the rest of us. They’re the ones who understand story and myth and the ways we write our … Continue reading
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T. A. Pratt’s Blood Engines
Marla Mason is not a people person. She’s too suspicious of people’s motives to have friends, she doesn’t enjoy casual chitchat, and she considers the fact that people want to kill her a plus, since death threats ensure she keeps … Continue reading
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Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw’s Flytrap 7
Along with the Heather Shaw chapbook reviewed elsewhere in Green Man Review, Issue 7 of Flytrap demonstrates that Tropism Press is a source for consistently intelligent and experimental speculative fiction. The tone of Flytrap is set in large part by … Continue reading
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Nancy Kilpatrick and Thomas Roche’s In The Shadow of the Gargoyle
I’m reviewing In The Shadow of the Gargoyle largely because the Spring 2001 Berkeley Publishing Group catalog which arrived recently had a listing for a novel by Katherine Kurtz called St. Patrick’s Gargoyle. What’s the connection, you ask? Simple — … Continue reading