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Thanks to the enormous success of multiple seasons of True Detective over the years, when HBO announces and trails a new crime series that looks spooky and almost a bit metaphysical, I'm always going ...

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers, has died. He was 92.