Post by Dante on Oct 19, 2012 4:09:18 GMT -5
At 6pm on Wednesday, October 24th, Daniel Handler will be appearing at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York City's Symphony Space, where he will be conversing on his new series All the Wrong Questions with author Sarah Vowell. It'll be a fantastic event, and for that reason we have an amazing offer courtesy of Little, Brown & Co.:
Ten sets of free tickets to the event to give away.
Each set represents two tickets, one for yourself and one for a friend or guardian. No delivery or printing-out needed - your name will be held at the door and you'll just need to remember who you are. Shouldn't be too difficult!
To apply, PM me, e-mail us at our new address at 667DarkAvenueForums@Gmail.com, or send us a Tweet on our new Twitter account mega bytes_Dark_Avenue, and we'll reserve your names. First-come first-served, but if the ten slots are filled and there's still interest, I can see if we can get any more. And if that does happen, signed-in 667ers will get priority!
Update: And that's that! All the ticket sets have been claimed and confirmed (save for one person who I'm waiting to get back to me - hurry up and do so before time runs out!). Enjoy the event, and tell us how it went! Thanks to Little, Brown & Co. for providing us with the opportunity to run this giveaway.
For now, here's a short interview prefacing the event to whet your appetite.
Spare Times for Children - Thalia Kids' Book Club: Lemony Snicket
Ten sets of free tickets to the event to give away.
Each set represents two tickets, one for yourself and one for a friend or guardian. No delivery or printing-out needed - your name will be held at the door and you'll just need to remember who you are. Shouldn't be too difficult!
To apply, PM me, e-mail us at our new address at 667DarkAvenueForums@Gmail.com, or send us a Tweet on our new Twitter account mega bytes_Dark_Avenue, and we'll reserve your names. First-come first-served, but if the ten slots are filled and there's still interest, I can see if we can get any more. And if that does happen, signed-in 667ers will get priority!
Update: And that's that! All the ticket sets have been claimed and confirmed (save for one person who I'm waiting to get back to me - hurry up and do so before time runs out!). Enjoy the event, and tell us how it went! Thanks to Little, Brown & Co. for providing us with the opportunity to run this giveaway.
For now, here's a short interview prefacing the event to whet your appetite.
Spare Times for Children - Thalia Kids' Book Club: Lemony Snicket
“ ‘Who Could That Be at This Hour?’ ” is a novel that asks many questions, not least the one its title poses. Some others: “Why are you flying through the air in the middle of the night?” “Where is that screaming coming from?” and “Who put you in this basement?”
Intriguing, no?
“I’m always more pleased by a book that tends to ask questions rather than answer them, so I tend to write that way too,” Daniel Handler said in a telephone interview from San Francisco, where he lives with his family.
Readers 8 to 12 know Mr. Handler, 42, as his alter ego, Lemony Snicket, author of the best-selling “Series of Unfortunate Events.” “ ‘Who Could That Be,’ ” to be published by Little, Brown & Company on Tuesday, represents the first volume in “All the Wrong Questions,” a new Snicket line illustrated by the cartoonist known as Seth. (Above, his drawing of a butler and a mansion in the first volume.) On Wednesday Symphony Space will feature the novel at the Thalia Kids’ Book Club, a literary event series at which Lemony Snicket will appear — sort of.
Snicket, the Thomas Pynchon of children’s authors, will not give interviews or have his face photographed and, as Mr. Handler puts it, “hardly ever shows up.” So Mr. Handler steps in as his, uh, representative. “I assume that whoever gathers will be disappointed again,” he said.
Disappointed? Mr. Handler knows all about the new series, Snicket’s autobiographical recounting of his career as a young investigator. In this volume Snicket, not quite 13, finds himself in a strange seaside town (with no sea) where he tries to recover and return to its owner a black statue of a mythical creature, the Bombinating Beast. It’s “The Maltese Falcon” for tweens.
“There’s something about the lonely glamour of that kind of noir that moved me and continues to move me,” Mr. Handler said. “And I haven’t really seen that in children’s literature.”
Lemony Snicket will ask questions throughout three more novels, also with questions as titles. But will they be answered? Not always, but readers shouldn’t mind.
“If noir was going to work for children, it was because there had to be a parallel between the journey of a noir detective and childhood,” Mr. Handler said. “A detective learns to distrust the motivations of everyone he’s investigating and tries to find a clear, moral path in a corrupt world, and I think that’s also childhood.”
On Wednesday Mr. Handler will sign books, and the author Sarah Vowell will interview him. And the fans? They’ll ask questions.
(At 6 p.m., 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, symphonyspace.org; $15; $12 for members.) LAUREL GRAEBER
Intriguing, no?
“I’m always more pleased by a book that tends to ask questions rather than answer them, so I tend to write that way too,” Daniel Handler said in a telephone interview from San Francisco, where he lives with his family.
Readers 8 to 12 know Mr. Handler, 42, as his alter ego, Lemony Snicket, author of the best-selling “Series of Unfortunate Events.” “ ‘Who Could That Be,’ ” to be published by Little, Brown & Company on Tuesday, represents the first volume in “All the Wrong Questions,” a new Snicket line illustrated by the cartoonist known as Seth. (Above, his drawing of a butler and a mansion in the first volume.) On Wednesday Symphony Space will feature the novel at the Thalia Kids’ Book Club, a literary event series at which Lemony Snicket will appear — sort of.
Snicket, the Thomas Pynchon of children’s authors, will not give interviews or have his face photographed and, as Mr. Handler puts it, “hardly ever shows up.” So Mr. Handler steps in as his, uh, representative. “I assume that whoever gathers will be disappointed again,” he said.
Disappointed? Mr. Handler knows all about the new series, Snicket’s autobiographical recounting of his career as a young investigator. In this volume Snicket, not quite 13, finds himself in a strange seaside town (with no sea) where he tries to recover and return to its owner a black statue of a mythical creature, the Bombinating Beast. It’s “The Maltese Falcon” for tweens.
“There’s something about the lonely glamour of that kind of noir that moved me and continues to move me,” Mr. Handler said. “And I haven’t really seen that in children’s literature.”
Lemony Snicket will ask questions throughout three more novels, also with questions as titles. But will they be answered? Not always, but readers shouldn’t mind.
“If noir was going to work for children, it was because there had to be a parallel between the journey of a noir detective and childhood,” Mr. Handler said. “A detective learns to distrust the motivations of everyone he’s investigating and tries to find a clear, moral path in a corrupt world, and I think that’s also childhood.”
On Wednesday Mr. Handler will sign books, and the author Sarah Vowell will interview him. And the fans? They’ll ask questions.
(At 6 p.m., 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, symphonyspace.org; $15; $12 for members.) LAUREL GRAEBER