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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- 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
Tag Archives: urban fantasy
Chris Marie Green’s Night Rising: Vampire Babylon, Book 1
While recovering from the near-career suicidal move of assaulting a major movie star (he had it coming), stuntwoman Dawn Madison is contacted by an unusual Hollywood PI firm Limpet and Associates, because her father has gone missing. And even though … Continue reading
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Martin H. Greenberg and Brittany A. Koren, Ed.s’ Single White Vampire Seeks Same
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Some people spend their entire life looking for love and never, ever find it. Love is elusive, and oft times very fickle; it can be an impossible task to find one’s “soul-mate.” And that … Continue reading
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Ekaterina Sedia, editor’s Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
Deborah J. Brannon wrote this review. Paper Cities is a collection of urban fantasy in the truest sense of the term: stories of the fantastic from or about the city and all the wonderment and horror that entails. I imagine … Continue reading
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Charlaine Harris’s Dead As A Doornail
Y’know, life for Sookie Stackhouse just keeps getting more and more complicated. It’s hard enough being a telepathic barmaid in a small Louisiana town, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In the past year, she’s been forced to … Continue reading
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Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels
Rebecca Scott wrote this review. Our stories can set us free, Dirk thought. When we set them free. This book includes: Weetzie Bat (1989), Witch Baby (1991), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1992), Missing Angel Juan (1993), and Baby … Continue reading
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Alan Moore’s Promethea: Book One
If you don’t know Alan Moore, you don’t know modern fantasy. At least, you don’t know vibrant, witty, sexy, brutal, erudite, mind-blowing, cutting-edge modern fantasy. And you certainly don’t know comics. Alan Moore is the author of the exhaustively researched, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Moore, comics, myth, urban fantasy
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Robin McKinley’s Sunshine
Robin McKinley is well known for her wonderful re-tellings of fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast and Rose Daughter), “Donkeyskin” (Deerskin) and “Sleeping Beauty” (Spindle’s End), as … Continue reading
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Lisa Goldstein’s The Alchemist’s Door
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Lisa Goldstein writes stories about magic and illusionists and countries that may not exist. She blends true history with fictionalized fantasy. She sees conspiracies and coincidences where none should occur. She is sometimes mistaken … Continue reading
Lisa Goldstein’s Walking the Labyrinth
Marian McHugh wrote this review. Molly Travers leads a simple life. She works for a temp agency; she has a friend who looks after her, Robyn Ann; and then there is Peter, a freelance journalist and the man she loves, … Continue reading
Emma Bull and Will Shetterly’s War for The Oaks screenplay
EDDI – Fairies aren’t real. They’re just – POOKA – Fairy tales? Did you think the stories sprang from nothing? The people of the Timeless Kingdom watched mortal Man learn to walk upright. Excerpt from the the War for The … Continue reading →