Wild ducks flying backward
Subtitle: the short writings of Tom Robbins
Edition: Bantam trade pbk ed.
Publisher: Bantam Books; Bantam
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780553383539
Subjects: Popular culture; American poetry; Written works; Authorship; American Short stories; Interviews; Essays
Description: A generous sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country-music lyrics. Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation.
Notes: Originally published: 2005.
Table of contents: title: Travel articles.; title: Canyon of the vaginas --; title: Two in the bush --; title: The eight-story kiss --; title: The cannibal king wants his din-din --; title: The day the earth spit warthogs.; title: Tributes.; title: The Doors --; title: Nurse Duffy of MTV --; title: Joseph Campbell --; title: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg --; title: The genius waitress --; title: Ray Kroc --; title: Jennifer Jason Leigh --; title: Leonard Cohen --; title: Slipper sipping --; title: Redheads --; title: Alan Rudolph --; title: Miniskirt feminism --; title: The sixties --; title: Diane Keaton --; title: Kissing --; title: Shree Bhagwan Rajneesh --; title: Ruby Montana --; title: Terence McKenna --; title: Thomas Pynchon --; title: Debra Winger.; title: Stories, poems, & lyrics.; title: Triplets --; title: Dream of the language wheel --; title: Catch 28 --; title: Three haiku --; title: Moonlight whoopee cushion sonata --; title: The origin of cigars --; title: Stick Indians --; title: Home medicine --; title: Clair de Lune --; title: Aloha nui --; title: Are you ready for the new urban fragrances? --; title: Honky-tonk astronaut --; title: Creole debutante --; title: Master Bo Ling --; title: R.S.V.P. --; title: My heart is not a poodle --; title: West to Satori --; title: Wild card --; title: Open wide --; title: Two for my young son --; title: The towers of St. Ignatz.; title: Musings & critiques.; title: In defiance of gravity --; title: Till lunch do us part --; title: What is art and if we know what art is, what is politics? --; title: Morris Louis : empty and full --; title: Lost in translation --; title: Leo Kenney and the geometry of dreaming --; title: The desire of his object.; title: Responses.; title: Write about one of your favorite things --; title: How do you feel about America? --; title: What do you think writer's block is and have you ever had it? --; title: With what fictional character do you most identify? --; title: Is the writer obligated to use his/her medium as an instrument for social betterment? --; title: Why do you live where you live? --; title: What was your first outdoor adventure? --; title: Do you express your personal political opinions in your novels? --; title: How would you evaluate John Steinbeck? --; title: Tell us about your favorite car --; title: What is your favorite place in nature? --; title: Send us a souvenir from the road --; title: What is the function of metaphor? --; title: Are you a realist? --; title: What is the meaning of life?