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Anthony Hayward’s The Green Men of Birmingham
Anthony Hayward’s The Green Men of Birmingham is a delightful, self-published chapbook that should interest anyone fascinated by green men. Foliate heads, as they were called before Lady Raglan gave them their present poetic name in the 1920s, are those … Continue reading
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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
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Various authors: An Omnibus Review Of Books About Christmas In History And Tradition
Tony von Renterghem’s When Santa Was a Shaman (Llewellyn Books, 1995) Clement Miles’s Christmas Customs and Traditions: Their History and Significance (T. Fisher, Unwin, 1912; Dover, 1976) John Ashton’s A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-Tide (Benjamin Blom, 1968 … Continue reading
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Philip Saville’s Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Andrea S. Garrett wrote this review. Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale is a made for cable production specifically created for the Hallmark Channel. I can think of very few good things to say about this movie. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, nonfiction
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Kenneth J. Bindas’s All of This Music Belongs to the Nation
The Federal Music Project was designed in 1935, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to employ musicians who had been hard-hit by the Great Depression. (Roosevelt’s social programs formed a model for similar Canadian programs that are … Continue reading
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Robert S. Koppelman’s Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love! The Writings of Lee Hays
You all recall Mister Lee Hays: the bass singer from The Weavers. He was last seen in the Weavers reunion film Wasn’t That a Time. He passed away shortly thereafter. Robert S. Koppelman, assistant professor of English at Broward Community … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, nonfiction
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Stephen Gammond’s Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists
Woody Guthrie was truly a legend in his own time. Nearly 40 years after his untimely death, the legend continues to grow, as does his influence on American music. Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, to name just two popular singer-songwriters, … Continue reading
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Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine’s Last Chance to See
Reading Last Chance To See is a bit of an odd experience these days, what with the much-loved primary author having gone prematurely extinct himself. That being said, Last Chance To See is a joy, a reminder of what we’ve … Continue reading
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Joe Sacco’s Palestine: the Special Edition
This lovely edition of Joe Sacco’s classic graphic novel Palestine is being promoted as “celebrating fifteen years of … Joe Sacco’s groundbreaking work of comics journalism.” So, it’s not a graphic novel? It’s “comics journalism.” OK, I’ll buy that. Whatever … Continue reading
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J. K. Van Dover’s Making the Detective Story American
The past decade has witnessed a dark flowering of detective stories in genre fiction, from the Harry Dresden series to the more recent “weird-boiled noir” of Paul Tremblay’s The Little Sleep and China Mieville’s The City & the City, not … Continue reading
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