IRVING, Texas, Sept. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Love 7-Eleven nachos? Probably not as much as Froggy, the riot grrrl punk rock band out of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Bandmates Morgan, Brooke and Fiona ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1876, a woman named Jeanne Bonnet, who made her living catching and selling frogs to San Francisco restaurants — and was repeatedly arrested for wearing trousers in public — was shot to death. A ...

Emma Donoghue’s new novel “Frog Music” comes with about 30 pages of homework after it’s done: a dense author’s note about San Francisco in the 1870’s, when the book is set; comprehensive notes on the ...

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 ...