To begin, a confession: I’ve never read much Lemony Snicket, neither the 13-book sequence “A Series of Unfortunate Events” nor the four-volume follow-up, “All the Wrong Questions.” This is not a ...
The early 2000s were a heady time for children’s literature. The Harry Potter boom emboldened publishers to take chances, and lots of oddities got through the cracks. Many millennials fondly recall “A ...
Writers lead messy lives, constantly condemned to days of lousy first drafts, failed ideas and chronic misstatements. Daniel Handler feels this deeply throughout his kinda-sorta memoir, “And Then? And ...