{"product_id":"frog-and-other-essays-9780374608743","title":"Frog: And Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America's most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrog\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, 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 unlock a whole world--one overflowing with mundanity and oddity--through sly observation and brilliant wit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The diverse subjects of \u003ci\u003eFrog \u003c\/i\u003eare bound together by 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 around her, in ways small and large, as time passes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Fadiman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374608743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Fadiman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wine Lover's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir about her father (2017). Her first book, \u003ci\u003e The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. Fadiman has also written two other essay collections, \u003ci\u003e Ex Libris \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAt Large and At Small\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited \u003ci\u003eRereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux). She is Professor in the Practice of English and Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Anne Fadiman \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47659112464541,"sku":"9780374608743","price":44.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_2c856cc8-efa2-44f2-9311-4f53a25e408f.jpg?v=1771350455","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/frog-and-other-essays-9780374608743","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}