The seven essays in Anne Fadiman's new collection, "Frog and Other Essays" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) are not all amphibious in theme.
While the title essay recalls the so-called life of her family's pet frog, other essays take readers on a deep dive into the celebrated nonfiction writer's thoughts on the evolving use of pronouns, her obsession with the lives of polar explorers, and the poignant connections she shares with her writing students at Yale.
While these essays were previously published elsewhere, Fadiman took the opportunity to further improve upon each one, in some cases even adding new material.
"I revised all these essays and was grateful to have the chance to do so," said Fadiman, the Francis Writer in Residence and a professor in the practice of English, in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "If you put an essay away for a few months, or a few years, you're bound to spot some infelicities that were invisible on the first round."
