Rodes Fishburne
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Rodes Fishburne is a writer living in San Francisco.
His first novel is “Going to See the Elephant.”
His essays and articles have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and Forbes ASAP, where he was the editor of the “Big Issue,” an annual magazine of literary essays from leading writers and thinkers including: Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, Muhammad Ali, and the Dalai Lama.
A native of Virginia, he worked for five seasons as a fly-fishing guide in Southwestern Alaska where he was stranded alone in a tent for 21 days.
To contact him, please visit, www.rodesfishburne.com
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Going To See the Elephant by Rodes Fishburne (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.50 — 103 ratings — published 2008 |
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Going to See the Elephant (Literature & Fiction)
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I am posting five free chapters from my debut novel, GOING TO SEE THE ELEPHANT, before it goes on sale. There will be a new chapter posted each week through December 8, 2008.
Bullwinkle’s Revenge--Story I wrote in the New Yorker (Nonfiction)
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story I wrote for the New Yorker
The Other Man -- essay from July 2008 issue of Oprah's magazine (Humor)
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A father discovers another man in bed with his wife.
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Big Issues: The Examined Life in a Digital Age (Hardcover) by Forbes ASAP |
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The Old Forest and Other Stories (Paperback) by Peter Taylor |
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""He was on the bench for 36 years and had the girth to show it.""
— Rodes Fishburne (Going To See the Elephant)
— Rodes Fishburne (Going To See the Elephant)
