My CBS television interview about “Going to See the Elephant”
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Mr. Fishburne,
I was drawn by the title of your book by accident, as a few years ago I heard a songwriters interview ( McMurtry ?) who had written a song in which “going to see the elephants” was code in the 30’s or 40’s for a young farmhand’s trip into town for his 1st sexual experience at a traveling carnival. Evidently this was a sideline of the sideshows. I am certainly glad I was hooked, as I enjoyed the book greatly ! You have a lovely off-hand style and your characters took me back many years to my enjoyment of Richard Braughtigan’s books. Your characters have just the right amount of humanity to make them as unpredictable and zany as the ones who inhabit this planet. Thank you !
Comment by John Pendell — April 20, 2009 @ 12:46 pm