Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared
in publications ranging from "Esquire" to "Harper’s," from "Playboy" to the "New
York Times." Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays,
articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare
overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original.
Whether rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s "Guernica, " lamenting
the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato
sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Tom
Robbins’s briefer writings exhibit the five traits that perhaps best
characterize his novels: an imaginative wit, a cheerfully brash disregard for
convention,