![]() ![]() ![]() So, you nearly missed the Tom Robbins express train to cult literary Nirvana. You may have borrowed your mom’s copy of Even Cowgirls the novel, on the pretext of reading it, but being an adolescent at the time, all you really did was flip through the pages looking for sex scenes. ![]() You remember his books & their quirky titles - Skinny Legs And All, Jitterbug Perfume - & Uma Thurman as a hitchhiker with prosthetically enlarged thumbs in the film adaptation of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Peradventure, your mother was a Tom Robbins fan when you were growing up. In 1980, Ronald Reagan became POTUS, MTV turned negative one, & Tom Robbins published Still Life With Woodpecker. “Unwilling to wait for mankind to improve, the outlaw lives as if that day were here.” A Belated Appraisal of “Still Life With Woodpecker,” by Tom Robbins ![]()
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