07.04.09
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Wind W @ 7 mph
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Aquatic Park
“Delightfully visual, full of whimsy, adventure, and blithely caustic social commentary
… [a] smart, frolicsome, and charming first novel. ”
Booklist (Starred Review)
“Zany and entertaining… a generous and whacky story in the tradition of Tom Robbins.”
Publishers Weekly
“Going to See the Elephant” has been selected as one of the “7 Best Books” of the New Year.
Amazon.com
“Going to See the Elephant” is a vivid, giant mash note to the city by the bay. It’s an adventure story, a love story and a story about growing up.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“Rodes Fishburne has no interest in front-page realism — magic realism is more his thing. He’s a fantacist, and his sweet comic novel is as light as a bright balloon, and just as appealing.”
USA Today
“… a debut novel that’s hilarious, unpredictable, and lovely.”
Meaghan Leenaarts, Island Bookstore, Corolla, NC
“Going to See the Elephant” has been selected as a January 2009 selection of the Indie Next List!
IndieBound
“Slater Brown… is just the man I’d want to lead me through the streets of San Francisco…. Going to See the Elephant is a rollicking good tale… one can’t help falling in love.”
Michelle Richmond
“Going to See the Elephant will delight anybody who has ever written a first novel, wanted to write a first novel, and especially those who cherish reading unforgettable first novels. It is both funny and wise.”
James Patterson
“Rodes Fishburne is a marksman hunting down first-novel fame, and he never misses”
Tom Wolfe
Fear. Isolation. Loneliness. Ah, the writer’s life.
A group of freelancers in San Francisco believe they’ve found a way to help remedy writer’s block, share advice, get feedback on a first draft and keep from driving their families crazy. They call it The Grotto. continue reading…
The Drilling Company in New York City produced my monologue “Gaggle” at the West 78th Street Theatre from April 11-27th 2003. continue reading…
My newest play, “Waiting for Henry to Snow” a one-act, will be performed at the West 78th Street Theatre in New York City in October 2004. Dates and times to follow. continue reading…
I was commissioned by the Sloan Foundation to write a new play for BioAgenda, a biotech conference which took place Dec.5-7 in Palm Springs, CA. continue reading…
THE instructions were cryptic, and whispered, which made them impossible to ignore: ”Little to the left, righto, righto . . . ,” followed by, ”Cast again.”
That was what our guide, Craig Aspinall, was telling us from his vantage on the bank of the Kaipo River in New Zealand as my wife, Lindy, and I stood midstream and cast to a trout as big as a piece of firewood. The fish was active and not yet ‘’suspicious,” as Craig would say of spooked fish.
The water was so clear that you could see it sucking stonefly nymphs off the bottom with the easy grace of a natural athlete. After several casts, I laid the fly in the right place and three runs, two jumps and one whoop later, we had landed and released our first New Zealand brown trout.
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