Daniel Handler interview with Publisher's Weekly

[crono288]

Some very cute moments in this one, and I personally always like when they maintain the "representative in all legal, literary, and social matters" facade.

[Dante]

As always, an interview with Daniel Handler is a thing of joy. He's on top form here. I couldn't pick a favourite line; there are too many.

[B.]

So many good things about this. Thanks for posting.

[Hermes]

Ha! The bit about prepositions take me back to The Basic Eight.

[Skelly Craig]

One of his funniest interviews, and that's saying something!

[Anka]

I like the end when he compares the author's role in a film production to children asked questions by their parents.

[Christmas Chief]

Great stuff. I think my favorite response was the answer to the question concerning e-books.

[Anka]

Oct 13, 2012 9:51:44 GMT -5 Christmas Chief said:

Great stuff. I think my favorite response was the answer to the question concerning e-books.

Yes, that's a funny one too. But at the beginning of this answer he speaks a little fast and unclearly, so I don't understand everything.

[MisterM]

I liked the first bit best

[Dante]

Oct 13, 2012 10:13:58 GMT -5 Anka said:

Oct 13, 2012 9:51:44 GMT -5 Christmas Chief said:

Great stuff. I think my favorite response was the answer to the question concerning e-books.

Yes, that's a funny one too. But at the beginning of this answer he speaks a little fast and unclearly, so I don't understand everything.

Do you require a transcription?

[Anka]

Oct 13, 2012 12:35:35 GMT -5 Dante said:

Oct 13, 2012 10:13:58 GMT -5 Anka said:

Yes, that's a funny one too. But at the beginning of this answer he speaks a little fast and unclearly, so I don't understand everything.

Do you require a transcription?

No, it already was much better when I watched it a second time. But thank you.

[bloomers]

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/54380-q-a-with-lemony-snicket.html

I found this online. It is also with PW, but it's different. I wasn't sure if I should go ahead and make a new thread or not.

[Christmas Chief]

Snicket seems more evasive than usual here, but even so, this certainly answers a number of our questions. I was at first disappointed when they asked about V.F.D., but then ...

PW: Do you have a favorite title from that stack you amassed?

DH: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. I hadn’t read it before and though I had an inkling I would like it, after reading it, my esteem for Mr. Chandler went up considerably. It is an astonishing novel.

A clue from long ago? He's mentioned the title before, but not as a direct inspiration.

[Skelly Craig]

Thanks for the link, bloomers, that's a really great interview! It's always fascinating to read an artist explain the way he works. Another new piece of information is that the defining of words is not "a trait unique to S. Theodora Markson," but a jargon of VFD. How about that. And the girl Lemony left at the train station apparently belongs to the bigger picture of the series and won't be resolved in the first book.
Oh and good memory, Sherry Ann, I forgot about that note. Seems that he was at the research stage when he wrote the letter in 2010.

[Dante]

The notes on his planning methods definitely accord with what I suspected to be true about ATWQ anyway. Although in some respects that's kind of an awkward interview; the interviewer doesn't really seem to know how to handle him. Good find, bloomers.

As with the gothic novel, here was a tradition that was relatively unexplored in children’s literature.

And here's the man who had a hand in changing that. I wonder if ATWQ will have the same result?