Lemony Snicket

The Bitter Comes Out Better in the Rachel Maddow Mix

Laura Paull | Posted 04.17.2012

Laura Paull

About halfway through their companionable onstage conversation at the Castro Theater in San Francisco Thursday night, Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, mixed a cocktail for Rachel Maddow.

Commentaries For A New American Passover Seder

Posted 03.29.2012

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah -- the user’s manual for the Passover seder -- has been translated more widely, and repr...

New Lemony Snicket Series Begins This Fall

AP | Posted 02.08.2012

NEW YORK -- Against the apparent wishes of the author, a new Lemony Snicket series begins this fall. Little Brown Books for Young Readers announced W...

Lemony Snicket Takes Over Our Twitter, Gives Love Advice

Posted 01.23.2012

You probably know Daniel Handler best as Lemony Snicket, the darkly snarky author behind "A Series of Unfortunate Events." But when he's not penning t...

Daniel Handler Iz On Our Twitters, Giving Out Love Advice

Posted 03.24.2012

What is the best love song ever? How do I break up with someone? How can I find a date? With questions of such profound romanticism, only one name...

Lemony Snicket Takes Over Our Twitter Feed

Posted 01.19.2012

Do you have any relationship problems? Daniel Handler, better known as the author A Series Of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket, is listening. On Mond...

Movie review: Sleeping Beauty

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.31.2012

Marshall Fine

Perhaps I'm not qualified to write about Sleeping Beauty, the debut film from Australian director Julia Leigh. I am, after all, a middle-aged man. An...

Andrew Losowsky

Famous Writers Sign On To Support Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 12.14.2011

Its statement is simple and stark. "We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement aroun...

Daniel Handler's Summer Reading List

Jenny Rosenstrach | Posted 09.25.2011

Jenny Rosenstrach

You should have seen the look on our 9-year-old's face when I told her that Daniel Handler was going to contribute a Summer Reading List for Dinner: A...

"Go The F*** To Sleep": A Children's Book For Adults

nytimes.com | REYHAN HARMANCI | Posted 06.29.2011

When Adam Mansbach, author of “Angry Black White Boy” and “The End of the Jews,” posted on Facebook last June to “Look out for my forthcomin...

Lemony Snicket, AKA Daniel Handler, On WHERE To Read Poetry

Poetry Foundation | Daniel Handler | Posted 05.25.2011

Happy, Snappy, Sappy There's space in the living room for poetry. by Daniel Handler If you were to walk into my living room on some weekend night, ...

Lemony Snicket's Christmas Story (VIDEO)

Monica Edinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Monica Edinger

Better late than never (had hoped to publish this on Christmas Eve) here's Lemony Snicket with his Christmas story, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screa...

Art, Russia, And Rock 'n' Roll: Five Questions for Carson Ellis

Allison K Gibson | Posted 05.25.2011

Allison K Gibson

"I was not a very ambitious kid," says Carson Ellis as she begins what she calls the "unconventional" tale of how she came to be a professional illust...

Lemony Snicket Moves To Little, Brown

Publishers Weekly | Jim Milliot | Posted 05.25.2011

Daniel Handler, who had a long and successful run with his Lemony Snicket-penned A Series of Unfortunate Events series at HarperCollins, is moving to ...

The Moral of the Story Is...

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Jilly Gagnon

Allow me to fill you in on all the dangerous, deadly, evil subtexts to your favorite fond memories...so that you'll never be so foolish as to enjoy them for what they are on their faces, again!