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A new collection of sprightly personal essays from one of America's most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman.
In Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the essay, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog, to archaic printer technology, to the fraught relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his son Hartley, these essays evoke an enormous world, one rife with brilliance and art, mundanity and oddity.
The diverse subjects of Frog cling together through the quality of Fadiman's attention, and subtly, they come to form a slantwise portrait of the artist, a writer dedicated to chronicling the world as it changes—in ways small and large—around her as time passes each day.
Anne Fadiman is the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (FSG, 1997), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. She is also the author of two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris, and the memoir The Wine Lover's Daughter, and she is the editor of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (all published by FSG). Her essays and articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.
In Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the essay, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog, to archaic printer technology, to the fraught relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his son Hartley, these essays evoke an enormous world, one rife with brilliance and art, mundanity and oddity.
The diverse subjects of Frog cling together through the quality of Fadiman's attention, and subtly, they come to form a slantwise portrait of the artist, a writer dedicated to chronicling the world as it changes—in ways small and large—around her as time passes each day.
Anne Fadiman is the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (FSG, 1997), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. She is also the author of two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris, and the memoir The Wine Lover's Daughter, and she is the editor of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (all published by FSG). Her essays and articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.
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"Anne Fadiman consistently produces essays that are simultaneously erudite and entertaining . . . Highly polished gems . . . It's hard to find fault with this collection, except that one wishes it contained even more of her consistently engaging writing."
Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf Awareness
"[Frog] collects seven well-crafted, content-rich essays. Fadiman shares a trick with my favorite essayists: She gets me absorbed in subjects I never thought to think of."
Scott Pfeiffer, Newcity
"[Fadiman] displays sleek dexterity galore, excelling at agile gearshifting over a hodgepodge of subjects . . . [Her] sentences clock in with rhythmic precision, paced by a sophisticated sensibility driven by curiosity, affability, and wide-ranging sympathy."
Bill Marx, The Arts Fuse