Post by Akbar Le Grey on Oct 6, 2006 14:39:29 GMT -5
I read this on Tuesday when my copy came, and I meant to post it, but I was busy all week. I hope no-one else has posted it; if they have, feel free to delete this. I don't think they have, though, because TIME Asia is different. Anyway, here it is:
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Q & A
DANIEL HANDLER
The End, the last book in the Lemony Snicket series, is out Oct. 13. Lev Grossman talks to its author.
What happens at the end of The End?
There's some death and birth and child rearing, and the possibility for enormous disaster, and the hope that enormous disaster can be averted.
I'm not hearing a lot of closure.
As I've been warning readers all along, there will be nothing but unpleasantness and frustration for those fool-hardy enough to read all the books.
Do your books show children the injustice of life?
I scowl at the notion that the books are teaching that the world is unjust. Any child who has ventured onto a playground already knows that.
What was your childhood like?
I was a boy soprano. My mother still has clippings if you'd like them.
And you played the accordion ...
I'm probably the first person in the world who took up the accordion to get girls.
Is your son telling stories yet?
Mostly about cars that need to be repaired, which then go to a restaurant, where they eat fries.
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From the Oct. 9, 2006 issue of TIME magazine. [Asia]
So, yeah. Feel free to delete it if it's already up.
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Q & A
DANIEL HANDLER
The End, the last book in the Lemony Snicket series, is out Oct. 13. Lev Grossman talks to its author.
What happens at the end of The End?
There's some death and birth and child rearing, and the possibility for enormous disaster, and the hope that enormous disaster can be averted.
I'm not hearing a lot of closure.
As I've been warning readers all along, there will be nothing but unpleasantness and frustration for those fool-hardy enough to read all the books.
Do your books show children the injustice of life?
I scowl at the notion that the books are teaching that the world is unjust. Any child who has ventured onto a playground already knows that.
What was your childhood like?
I was a boy soprano. My mother still has clippings if you'd like them.
And you played the accordion ...
I'm probably the first person in the world who took up the accordion to get girls.
Is your son telling stories yet?
Mostly about cars that need to be repaired, which then go to a restaurant, where they eat fries.
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From the Oct. 9, 2006 issue of TIME magazine. [Asia]
So, yeah. Feel free to delete it if it's already up.
