-
Meta
Editorial Staff
Cat Eldridge
Gary WhitehouseSearch
-
Recent Posts
- What’s New for the 9th of November:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Recursive Loops
- What’s New for the 20th of July: Lots of Elizabeth Bear including The Folded Sky; tomatoes; a Hobbit film; new jazz and archival reviews; Charles Vess ballads and sagas; and an offbeat Ellen Kushner adaptation
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Commedia dell’Arte. Possibly.
- What’s New for the 6th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Mama Kin
- What’s New for the 22nd of June: books about baseball, air travel most unusual, some music about baseball (and some not)
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Handfasting (A Letter to Katrina)
- What’s New for the 8th of June: kibbles and bits — lots of fairy tales, steamy anime, a Cairo comic, new jazz, an archival grab bag, and a Kitchen tale
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Cats
- What’s New for the 25th of May: new and notable SFF books; Murderbot on TV, and some Star Wars prequel movies; new jazz music and some tasty archival selections; food & steelworker strikes; and a novel Tarot deck
- What’s New for the 11th of May: Special Jack Zipes edition on fairy tales; an obsure Tam Lin film treatment; songs that tell stories; new jazz, Danish fiddle tunes, Norwegian women’s vocal music; Russian and Eastern European food and cooking, and more
- What’s New for the 27th of April: Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw’s fiction and Flytrap zine; Tea with Jane Austen; a fine French fairy tale film; some new jazz and archival francophone music reviews; and the Stones!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Most Beguiling Cookbook
- What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band
- A Kinrowan Story: We Lost The Cheshire Cat
Tag Archives: L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum’s Oz books: An omnibus review by Chuck Lipsig
The Wizard of Oz (George M. Hill and Company, 1901) The Land of Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1904) Ozma of Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1907) Dororthy and the Wizard in Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1908) The Road to Oz (Reilly … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Oz
Comments Off on L. Frank Baum’s Oz books: An omnibus review by Chuck Lipsig
Evan I. Schwartz’s Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Finding Oz is a biography of L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. Rather than being one of those ghastly concoctions that look at their subjects’ public lives in total isolation from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Americana, biography, L. Frank Baum, nonfiction
Comments Off on Evan I. Schwartz’s Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
L. Frank Baum and Michael Patrick Hearn’s The Annotated Wizard of Oz, and Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice
Norton has risen beyond its usual level of excellence in both the content and design of these volumes. They will certainly be treasured members of my library. Physically each book is a hardcover measuring a compact 10 inches tall by … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz books
Comments Off on L. Frank Baum and Michael Patrick Hearn’s The Annotated Wizard of Oz, and Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Kansas Centennial Edition; Illustrator Michael McCurdy; Foreword by Ray Bradbury
Lahri Bond wrote this review. To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the publication of L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, University Press of Kansas has released a special “Kansas Centennial Edition”of the book. For those whose only … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged fantasy, L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Comments Off on L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Kansas Centennial Edition; Illustrator Michael McCurdy; Foreword by Ray Bradbury