6/29/2023 0 Comments Lemony Snicket by Lemony Snicket![]() So, part of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” was an acknowledgment of the bewildering state of affair that is childhood. Surely, you will be rewarded if you behave this way, or aren’t you having a wonderful time reading about this? And you never are. So much of children’s literature is about enforced fun or enforced morality. In fact, when the first two volumes of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” were ready to be published, I sent them to Edward Gorey with a note saying how much I admired his work and how much I hoped that he would forgive what I had stolen from him. The first book that I bought with my own money was “The Blue Aspic” by Edward Gorey. I would miss the bus because I was reading. All I remember is wanting to be a writer. When I was 5 years old, someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said that I wanted to be an old man who lived on the top of a mountain giving advice. ![]() And then the woman from the right-wing organization said, “Is that spelled how it sounds?” ![]() And I thought, out of all the things you could have said, that was the worst one. So, she said, “What is your name?”Īnd then there was a pause. ![]() Tonight, we hear from Daniel Handler, a name you may only recognize if we identify him by his alias, Lemony Snicket.ĭANIEL HANDLER, Author: When I was researching my first novel, “The Basic Eight,” I was calling up right-wing religious organization and political groups in order to make fun of them.Īnd I thought to myself, I better not tell her my real name. GWEN IFILL: Now to another of our Brief But Spectacular interviews. ![]()
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