For all his influence on the West Coast literary scene, author Tom Robbins has produced a relatively small output of novels--just six in over twenty-five years. The reason for this scarcity, the author told the New York Times in 1993, is based on the fac...

Byline: Mark Guarino Here are the ingredients to make a Lucinda Williams album from the woman herself: "I write songs about love, I write songs about sex, I write songs about God." Well gee, so does Madonna. The difference in Williams'...

MUCH BALLYHOOED, much-anticipated, the movie version of Tom Robbins's extravagantly playful road romance "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" was set for release last November, but got such a ho-hum response from preview audiences that in-over-his-head director Gus Van Sant took it back and diddled...

Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, will publish a new novel this fall by Tom Robbins called B is For Beer. According to HarperCollins executive editor David Hirshey, who is editing the book, it is about 100 pages long, and takes the form of a...

Except when denying their natural instincts and inclinations, characters of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues gradually shift towards an emotional freedom characterized by a general indifference to traditional societal values.