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Frog
- Author
- Anne Fadiman
- Narrator
- Anne Fadiman
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 10 February 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman.
In Frog, 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.
The diverse subjects of Frog are 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.
“Affecting and often humorous … Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, using everyday objects to explore such profound themes as grief, loss, and personal growth … Readers will be captivated.”—Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Author
- Anne Fadiman
- Narrator
- Anne Fadiman
- Duration
- 4 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9798899740558
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Literary essays, Anthologies: general
Synopsis
A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman.  In Frog, 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. The diverse subjects of Frog are 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. “Affecting and often humorous … Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, using everyday objects to explore such profound themes as grief, loss, and personal growth … Readers will be captivated.”—Publishers Weekly
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