He gained a cult following through novels that married zany, acid-tinged humor with philosophical inquiry and literary zest.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug Perfume,” ...
The celebrated comic novelist wrote bestsellers like Another Roadside Attraction and Jitterbug Perfume while maintaining a devoted underground following ...
Novelist Tom Robbins, whose counterculture works included “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug Perfume,” died Sunday.
NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball ...
Your books make me laugh, they make think ...,” one fan told Tom Robbins, “and they make me aware of all the wonder in the ...
His first novel, "Another Roadside Attraction," was published in 1971 when Robbins was 39 -- more than three decades after declaring to his parents, at age 5, that he'd be a writer.
1.This weird pattern in the clouds: 2.This corn that went off-script in the middle of the cob: 3.This "X" that was spotted in an aurora: 4.These pixelated shadows: 5.This twisted pair of underwear: ...
The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles will ask lawmakers this year to let it hire dozens of additional employees to fully staff its driver’s license offices and to open or expand three others.
including Chetola Resort, Green Park Inn, Blowing Rock School, and other locations. Blowing Rock is situated approximately 8 miles (13 km) from Boone, North Carolina, another city on the scenic Blue ...