The snakes that ate Florida : reporting, essays, and criticism

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.

Physical Description

viii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Selected pieces on nature, history, politics, and urban culture from Ian Frazier, a master of the nonfiction narrative"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • Decorative value
  • Staying for the slack
  • Psychoanalysts at the Waldorf
  • Minnesota Fats
  • Science talent
  • Bear Bryant
  • Eagles
  • Kim Williams
  • More Kim Williams
  • Remembering Kim Williams
  • Monster trucks and mud bog
  • Scratch and sniff
  • El Super
  • Marginal
  • Parade of the night
  • Poughkeepsie Bridge
  • The mountain
  • Spy-hop
  • Security
  • Prize winner
  • Still open
  • Shelter
  • When Bob Dylan heard the cicadas
  • The year of the spotted lanternfly
  • Among the hats
  • Invaders
  • Frogpocalypse now
  • What ever happened to the Russian Revolution?
  • The Maraschino Mogul
  • The day the Great Plains burned
  • The snakes that ate Florida
  • World's largest
  • Snow
  • The positive negative
  • Pick your part
  • Woe is me
  • Pensées d'automne
  • Driving in New York
  • Lists
  • Reading Lolita
  • Tales of cabin fever
  • The magic of Crazy Horse
  • Let us now praise James Agee
  • A strangely funny Russian genius
  • Grim reapers
  • Can we talk?.

Genres

Essays.