Most of the cast of the frenetic children’s musical in Francine Prose’s new novel, “Mister Monkey,” loathe the eponymous play and its ludicrous dance numbers. The author of the children’s book the ...

Francine Prose is still monkeying around. Thirty years ago, she wrote a zany novel called “Bigfoot Dreams” about a tabloid journalist enchanted by Sasquatch. This time around, she’s swinging with a ...

Like Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, the spellbinding roman à clef that preceded it, Francine Prose’s novel Mister Monkey is another multiple-perspective marvel, awash in wonderfully ...

Is Francine Prose just monkeying around? Is she taking a comic break after the much weightier exploration of creeping xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and right-wing proto-fascism in her last novel, Lovers ...

The play at the center of Francine Prose’s new novel is not the sort of production you hear about come Tony Award time. It’s a not-very-good but often-produced children’s musical about a chimpanzee ...

Francine Prose is still monkeying around. Thirty years ago, she wrote a zany novel called "Bigfoot Dreams" about a tabloid journalist enchanted by Sasquatch. This time around, she's swinging with a ...

Mister Monkey is the latest novel by award-winning writer Francine Prose. NPR's Scott Simon chats with Prose about the novel which was inspired after a seeing a play with her granddaughter. Francine ...

Francine Prose takes a comparatively light comic turn in her new novel, about the disappointing lives of a group of people involved in an... Is Francine Prose just monkeying around? Is she taking a ...