Tom Robbins changed my life. When a friend gave me a copy of his novel Jitterbug Perfume, which I consider his best, in the late 1980s, Robbins was already past his prime, when it was fashionable ...

Donald Barthelme once said, "Those who never attempt the absurd never achieve the impossible." Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker; Jitterbug Perfume; etc.) has made a career of attempting and ...