SOURCE: A review of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, and Significant Others, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 5, 1989, p. 20.

In the following review, Solomon remarks favorably on the Tales series.

Bedtime stories for Baby Boomers. Armistead Maupin's continuing saga of life in San Francisco began as a serial in the Chronicle in 1976, and his tongue-in-cheek depiction of the late '70s sex-and drugs singles scene seems as remote today as the misadventures of the Pickwickians.

Although the search for love and security in an increasingly uncertain world remains at the heart of this popular series, the tone has darkened. The three earlier books played relatively down-to-earth characters against such extravagantly silly plot twists as the discovery of the Episcopal Cannibal Cult in More Tales. But as the liberated '70s gave way to the grayer, grimmer '...