Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here are your hosts. John Joseph Adams and David Barr

Kirtley.

Hi this is David and this is Dave. And this is John.

And welcome to episode 72 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Daniel handler, who under the pen name Lemony Snicket wrote a series of unfortunate events.

In 2004, the first three books were adapted into a feature film starring Jim Perry.

The latest Lemony Snicket book, Who Could That Be at this hour, is the first in a four-book detective noir series called all the wrong questions?

Then stick around Loechre the interview as we discuss the state of short horror fiction and my New Horror Magazine Nightmare with guest geek

R.J. Savan, editor and publisher of Creeping Hamlock Press.

This show also features a special presentation of Dave surreal noir story, The Black Bird,

which recently appeared on the Light Speed Podcast.

All right, so let's get to our interview.

All right, so we're here with Daniel Handler.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

A pleasure to be here. So last year you wrote a piece called 13 observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a discrete distance.

What motivated you to write that piece?

I guess watching Occupy Wall Street from a discrete distance and also Occupy

Writers the organization asked me if I would write a piece and I said no because

I didn't think I had anything to say and then I was swimming

laps at the place where I swim laps and I had a rude experience with a clearly successful capitalist

capitalist and it ticked me off and so I thought I can write something about what's wrong with

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