Episode 351 — Daniel Handler

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Handler is the guest. His new novel We Are Pirates is now available from Bloomsbury. Booklist, in a starred review, says "Handler (aka children's author Lemony Snicket) has never been known for writing precisely happy novels, and his latest certainly doesn't deviate. What could easily have been a slightly silly, fantastical romp becomes, instead, in Handler's capable hands, a macabre, darkly human portrayal of family dynamics and growing up in a world running low on adventure . . . peppered with black humor." And Jess Walter says "We Are Pirates will dazzle, disturb, and delight you. It might even do things to you that don't start with the letter D, like remind you what it's like to be young, or convince you that Daniel Handler can do anything." Monologue topics: the dentist, cough, mail, work, fear, money, children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.6	Jake, stated what I struggle, you know?
0:52.0	It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. All right. Everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is something you can do in the fetal position. This is not, parenthetically speaking. Hello. Hello out there. I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. You're not actually here. You know what I mean. It's good to see you. I'm not seeing you. You know what I mean. My guest is Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket. He has a new novel out. It's a novel for adults called We Are Pirates. An excellent book available now from Bloomsbury. It also happens to be
1:28.4	the official March selection of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club, The Nervous Breakdown.com. For those of you
1:34.2	who are not in the know is my online culture magazine and literary community. It has its own book club
1:39.1	every month. I pick a title along with my colleague Jonathan Eveson. We curate the book club, and you can
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2:03.6	I'm okay. I have a little bit of a cold.
2:09.2	But I'm just pushing through it. I'm ignoring it.
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