Emma Donoghue’s last novel, her best-selling Room (2010), brought readers fiercely, spellbindingly into the world of a captive small boy and his mother. With her latest, Frog Music, the brilliant ...

Emma Donoghue’s tales are always unexpected. “Room,” which became a phenomenal best seller, was narrated by a child held captive from birth in a soundproof cell. Her newest, “Frog Music,” is a ...

The second in a series of posts in which we ask writers about the cultural influences on their work. I often draw on fact to spin my fiction. But in the case of “Frog Music,” which is based on an 1876 ...

In 1870s San Francisco, in the midst of a debilitating smallpox epidemic and a rancid heat wave, a cross-dressing, frog-hunting, bicycling itinerant singer named Jenny Bonnet is murdered. In Emma ...

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them,” wrote James Baldwin in “Notes of a Native Son.” Much of novelist Emma Donoghue’s literary career has involved the liberation of ...

While fact-checking Current contributor Leigh Baldwin’s review of Frog Music, I happened upon author Emma Donoghue’s blog post for The New Yorker titled Inspiration Information: “Frog Music.” While ...

San Francisco in the summer of the 1876, between the Gold Rush and the smallpox epidemic, is the setting for Emma Donoghue's boisterous new novel, Frog Music. There's real frog music in these pages, ...

A San Francisco burlesque dancer and a cross-dressing frog catcher make for a spitfire Wild West whodunit You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.