David Rogers met Frog while at the University of Oregon in the mid-1990s. Rogers recalled buying one of his joke books. Since then, he said they grew together as friends and had been housemates ...

Lily Tschudi-Campbell (right) holds up the handmade “Frog and Toad” book that Cassidy Foust, used to propose last December in the Red Balloon Bookshop. “We’re just ridiculous, we should ...

New York Review Books, $15.95 trade paper (144p ... Klement, who appears as a frog in his throat. That’s about it for the plot; what drives the narrative are the men’s irresistible voices ...