No matter how many times she’s flown her hot air balloon over the Charlottesville region where she grew up, Monticello Country Ballooning owner and pilot Mandy Baskin is always filled with awe ...

Novelist Tom Robbins, whose counterculture works included “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug Perfume,” died Sunday. He was 92. Robbins’ death was announced by his wife ...

Tom Robbins, a one-time Richmonder who became an acclaimed novelist known for such witty works as “Another Roadside Attraction” and “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” died Sunday at 92.

NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug ...

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume," has died.

NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug ...

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume," has died. He was ...

By Clay Risen Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s ...