Daniel Handler

Jan 7, 2025 | crimereads.com | Ryan Britt |Daniel Handler |John le Carré |Tess Gerritsen

When we think of espionage adventures, it’s easy to imagine world-consuming conspiracies, a ticking clock, and a general sense of globe-trotting. But, even James Bond spends the eternity of the novel The Spy Who Loved Me in a small motel in the Adirondack Mountains. The point? Article continues after advertisementNot all spy missions have to take place in multiple locations or involve people with full passports, forged or otherwise.

Aug 18, 2024 | thedailynewsonline.com | Marion Winik |Daniel Handler

The author of seven novels, three “not-novels,” and 26 books under his nom de plume Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has added a memoir to his oeuvre. Sort of. “And Then? And Then? What Else?” is a charming book, more a set of literary and personal musings than a standard autobiography. “I’m trying to show you the canon in my head,” he explains in the first chapter, and should you fail to take notes, he includes an appendix of favorite books, music and films.

Aug 8, 2024 | airmail.news | Laura Hackett |Daniel Handler

And Then? And Then? What Else? A Writer’s Life by Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket “If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.” So Daniel Handler, writing as the enigmatic Lemony Snicket, begins A Series of Unfortunate Events, his inordinately successful sequence of children’s books, which have sold 60 million copies and left me, aged 12, utterly captivated.

Jun 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Daniel Handler

My earliest reading memory I have a blur of a memory of sounding out the words to Dr Seuss’s The Pale Green Pants – “Then I was deep within the woods / When, suddenly, I spied them. / I saw a pair of pale green pants / With nobody inside them!” – while my mother helped me along. The clearer memory is of seeing my trousers draped over a chair in my bedroom, and wondering, half-scared and half-hoping, if they were going to rise in the air while I slept – my first literary nightmare.

May 25, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Daniel Handler

“You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten,” proclaims Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler). AND THEN? AND THEN? WHAT ELSE? is a delightful, dark, honest, funny and altogether compelling look at Handler’s life thus far. And at the relatively young age of 54, we assume he has a lot more living to do.