Independent Arts News Reporting The Dark Imagination of Author Daniel Handler Comes to Doylestown Bookshop
Reported Monday, May 13, 2024.
Pictured Above: Daniel Handler. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Part memoir, part inspiration for aspiring writers, And Then? And Then? What Else? traces Daniel Handler’s sometimes challenging and often amusing path toward one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers of the twenty-first century.
Meet the Author at the Doylestown Bookshop on Friday, May 24, 6 pm
NEWSROOM POST: DOYLESTOWN PENNSYLVANIA
Doylestown, PA – Daniel Handler, author of And Then? And Then? What Else? will be Doylestown on Friday, May 24, 6 pm, days after his book launch. Officially on tour, Handler’s memoir reveals how he found himself becoming Lemony Snicket. He’s often been asked over the years where that dark imagination springs from. Handler’s book is an honest look at mental health, finding one’s way in the world as a reader and writer, and channeling inspiration through a variety of sources and is noted to be a bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of a most unusual literary life May 24th is also the 25th anniversary of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten.
Declaring his love of strange literature, Handler reflects on the life experiences—some of them deeply personal and revealed for the first time—and the cultural influences that shaped his writing. Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood discovery of Baudelaire’s poetry through the countless peculiarities of his pursuit of a literary life—abject failure and startling success, breakthrough and breakdown, concordance and controversy—lit along the way by the books and culture he loved best.
Pictured Above: Daniel Handler outside his apartment. Photo Credit: Contributed.
At once a personal memoir and a literary exploration, a how-to book and a critical inquiry, a sequence of stories and a series of events, And Then? And Then? What Else? is a book not just for anyone curious about the creator of Lemony Snicket, but for anyone who loved books when they were a child, and still loves them now.
Daniel Handler is best known for his books as Lemony Snicket, notably the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book sequence All the Wrong Questions. Under his given name, he is the author of seven novels, and has worked extensively in music, theater, film, and television. He lives in San Francisco, California.
TITLE: And Then? And Then? What Else?
AUTHORS: Daniel Handler PUB DATE: May 21, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-324-09060-1 PAGES: 240 | PRICE: $26.99
This is a ticketed event. Tickets may be purchased at www.doylestownbookshop.com
