The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism by Frazier, Ian

The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism

Selected pieces on nature, history, politics, and urban culture from a master of the nonfiction narrative. Writing...
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Author: Ian Frazier
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Language: English
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The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism by Frazier, Ian

The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism

$95.99 $50.53

The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism

$95.99 $50.53
Author: Ian Frazier
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Selected pieces on nature, history, politics, and urban culture from a master of the nonfiction narrative.

Writing on subjects as divergent as the mega-fires that burned the grasslands of the Great Plains in 2018, the tragic secret life of the manufacturer of maraschino cherries, the world's largest beaver dam, and the invasive Burmese pythons of the Florida Everglades, Ian Frazier captures the multiplicity, the strangeness, and the wonder of contemporary life.

This collection of pieces--consisting of features and reportage for The New Yorker beginning in 1970, articles on topics such as COVID and rereading Lolita fifty years later, and work published in the last year--showcases the wide-ranging play of Frazier's imagination. Astute and engaged, he is the supreme chronicler of the everyday, a kind of social and political anthropologist. Fifty years of keen observation and irrepressible curiosity come together in The Snakes That Ate Florida, establishing Frazier as nothing less than the greatest practitioner of the form.

Author: Ian Frazier
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780374603106


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025
Publishers Weekly 10/27/2025
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001

About the Author
Ian Frazier's books, all published by FSG, include Paradise Bronx, Great Plains, Travels in Siberia, Dating Your Mom, and many other classic works of nonfiction and humor. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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