Still Life with Woodpecker Summary
Tom Robbins

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 autho... Read more

Critical Essay by R. V. Cassill Old fashions of escape literature never die; they come back with new drapes, dyes and hemlines, and the cotton candy of yesteryear is now laced with cocaine to dull the... Read more

Critical Essay by Frank Mcconnell If Thomas Pynchon were a Muppet, he would write like Tom Robbins. That may be, indeed, a large part of the problem in reading Robbins. He's so cute: his books ... Read more