Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MISTER MONKEY By Francine Prose. Harper. 304 pp. $26.99. ISBN 978-0062397836 Review by Ron Charles, The Washington Post Francine Prose is still monkeying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’s “Mister Monkey,” a novel about a very bad musical, leaves you with the feeling you have after watching a really good musical: exhilarated, lightened, maybe even humming. Its ...

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 ...

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 ...