Going to See the Elephant, A New Novel Set in SF

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7x7 Editors
Nov 19, 2008

The first novel by journalist (and Grottoite) Rodes Fishburne, Going to See the Elephant ($22, Delacorte Press), is populated by mayors, muses and an inventor named Milo Magnet. Need you ask where it’s set? Our fair city, of course.

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