Comic Novelist Counterculture

Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – in memory of the Ukrainian novelist who catalogued war crimes

A powerful, posthumous collection of diary entries, interviews, war reports and poetry has the late author’s tragic absence at its heart. When Russia attacked Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Victoria ...

The Guardian - 1h

Counterculture author Tom Robbins, known for his irreverent bestselling novels, dies at 92

His first novel, "Another Roadside Attraction," was published in 1971 when Robbins was 39 -- more than three decades after declaring to his parents, at age 5, that he'd be a writer.

Los Angeles Times - 1d

Podz shares comical theory for Post's 3-point prowess vs. Bucks

Second-year Golden State Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski hilariously revealed how rookie center Quinten Post might be playing well because of his girlfriend.

Yahoo Sports - 10h

Tom Robbins, comic novelist of US counterculture, dies aged 92

Author of books including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction, was known for his outlandish tales of sex, drugs and mysticism. Tom Robbins, whose novels read like a hit of ...

The Guardian - 1d

Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92

He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”

The New York Times - 1d

‘I have just bought my first gun’: the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood

The author had turned to documenting the conflict in her homeland before she was killed by a Russian missile. Margaret Atwood introduces an exclusive extract from the book she was working on when ...

The Guardian - 3d

Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat

Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished. Sally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from Dorset, born in 1901. Yet she foresaw a ...