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 ...

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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 ...

Emma Donoghue does not equivocate about the sort of book “Frog Music” is supposed to be. It opens with the murder of Jenny Bonnet, shot through the window of a boarding house near a 19th-century San ...

The marvelous writer Emma Donoghue is, as I said in a recent tweet, “ever a delight, so smart, so witty, so thoughtful.” Despite her literary heritage (her father Denis Donoghue is a well-known critic ...

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, ...

Crazy Frog, the viral CGI creature that topped the charts in the mid-’00s, is set to make an unexpected return. The character – aka ‘The Annoying Thing’ – was marketed by the ringtone company Jamba!

Emma Donoghue has broken out of her "Room." Four years after that bestselling story of a mother and child imprisoned in a garden shed, she's back with a novel ravenous for space, for people, for ...