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The #1 New York Times bestseller is frankly, none of your business.
In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read, the first two chapters of which should not be included here but are.
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Top secret conversation: Lemony Snicket & Daniel Handler
Can you be trusted? Please immediately listen to this which contains a top secret recorded conversation between Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket. The more people who are made aware of this classified information the better chance we have of keeping our secret.
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Author
Lemony Snicket had an unusual education and a perplexing youth and now endures a despondent adulthood. His previous accounts and research have been collected and published as books, including those in A Series of Unfortunate Events, 13 Words, and The Composer Is Dead. "Who Could That Be at This Hour?" is the first title in his new, four-volume series, All the Wrong Questions.
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Lemony Snicket
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
237 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Artist
Seth is no stranger to a town that is fading. He is a multi-award-winning cartoonist, author, and artist, whose works include Palookaville, Clyde Fans, and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists. He lives in Guelph, Canada.
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NPR: Fresh Air: Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat
12/10/2012
While the Unfortunate Events books play with ideas about gothic literature, All the Wrong Questions explores detective-noir conventions. Handler tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that initially, he had concerns about writing in a noir style for younger readers, not least because of the central role of the genre's femme fatale characters and their sexualized personas. But then he had an epiphany that freed him from this worry: In noir, he realized, the detective and the femme fatale are doing the exact same thing.
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Daniel Handler shares thoughts about Lemony Snicket and All the Wrong Questions
10/12/2012
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USA TODAY Review: New Snicket series dives into noir
10/22/2012
The old house squats high on a hill overlooking a sparkling bay. A substantial man in a suit and tie appears at the front door. He could be a banker, a lawyer, a politician, a mortician.
Definitely not a writer. Which he is.
"Would you like an espresso?" asks Daniel Handler, 42, not to be confused with Lemony Snicket, the fictitious scribe Handler often "represents" at media events. Snicket is famously the investigative protagonist of A Series of Unfortunate Events, 13 best-selling turn-of-the-millennium children's books that became a 2004 Jim Carrey movie.
"Forget the interview," says Handler with the wave of a hand. "Let's get hopped up on coffee and you can just tell your readers I'm pro-literature."
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A.V. Club Review: Lemony Snicket: Who Could That Be At This Hour?
10/22/2012
Six years after the original series ended, Handler has decided that Lemony Snicket deserves his own story. The first of the All The Wrong Questions quartet, Who Could That Be At This Hour?, takes place long before the Baudelaire children were born, when Snicket was an adolescent working for the mysterious organization known as VFD. Readers might be tempted to look at this new series as a set of prequels, but Handler deftly deals with those expectations by starting the book with an attempted poisoning and an escape through a bathroom window. Questions about the Baudelaires are left far behind in the quick action.
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The Boston Globe: Daniel Handler: Novelist and Lemony Snicket’s alter ego
10/20/2012
Daniel Handler leads a literary double life. He writes novels under his own name — his most recent is “Why We Broke Up” — and best-selling children’s books under the name of Lemony Snicket. He’s in town this Saturday for the Boston Book Festival.
BOOKS: What are you reading currently?
HANDLER: I am reading a book by Martha Gellhorn, “Pretty Tales for Tired People.” She was on a vague list in my head of people who were good but whom I hadn’t read. I loved the title so I picked it up.
BOOKS: What did you read before the Gellhorn?
HANDLER: Iris Murdoch’s “The Bell,” which is a great book. I pigged out on her about 15 years ago. The pig-out started in college with “Under the Net,” her first novel, which is terrific. This is my first time reading her in a long time. Read more...
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Los Angeles Times Review: Who Could That Be at This Hour? is Lemony Snicket fun
10/18/2012
What is a bombinating beast, and why would anyone make a statue of it, much less steal it, in a city nowhere near an ocean that's nevertheless known as Stain'd by the Sea? These, and other alliterative oddities, are at the center of "Who Could That Be at This Hour?" — a Pink Panther-esque page turner that marks the return of eccentric narrator Lemony Snicket, who was last heard from six years ago with "The End" to his 13-book "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
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New York Times: Thalia Kids' Book Club - LEMONY SNICKET
10/18/2012
“ ‘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.
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Read the first chapter of Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions Book One -- EXCLUSIVE
6/1/2012
Famously cantankerous author Lemony Snicket wasn’t always such a scrooge, but now we get to learn what odd things happened in his childhood to make him turn out that way. We first got to know Snicket from his best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events books. His upcoming series, All the Wrong Questions, focuses on his perplexing youth and his apprenticeship at a mysterious organization. "Who Could That Be at This Hour?", the first of four volumes in the new series, comes your way Oct. 23, but EW has an exclusive sneak peek at chapter one.
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Cover Unveiled for New Lemony Snicket Book
3/28/2012
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has unveiled the cover for ""Who Could That Be at This Hour?"", the new book by Lemony Snicket. What do you think?
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Read if you must: Snicket bio on the way
2/12/2012
Against the apparent wishes of the author, a new Lemony Snicket series begins this fall.
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New Lemony Snicket All the Wrong Questions Book Series Begins This Fall
2/8/2012
The fictional author Lemony Snicket will return in a four book series from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers called All the Wrong Questions. Graphic novelist Seth will illustrate the "authorized autobiographical account" of Snicket's childhood.
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New Lemony Snicket series coming this October
2/8/2012
Little, Brown has announced the title and on-sale date of Lemony Snicket's highly anticipated new series. The first volume in the four-part autobiographical account of his childhood, called All the Wrong Questions, will be released on Oct. 23, 2012. This will be Snicket's first new series since the wildly popular A Series of Unfortunate Events. The famously cantankerous author said in a press release, "These books are questionable and contain questions. I, for one, question why anyone would be interested in reading them."
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Lemony Snicket to Return in 4-Book Series
2/8/2012
Little, Brown has announced the title and on-sale date of Lemony Snicket's highly anticipated new series.
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Lemony Snicket returns with autobiographical kids' series
2/8/2012
More than five years after the end of A Series of Unfortunate Events, which sold more than 60 million copies, Lemony Snicket (the pen name for Daniel Handler) is writing a new series for kids. "Who Could That Be at This Hour?", to be released Oct. 23, is the first in a four-volume series, All the Wrong Questions, to be published by Little Brown.
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New Lemony Snicket Book Gets One Million Copy First Printing, Release Date
2/8/2012
Lemony Snicket is coming back and in a big way.
Little, Brown Books announced that "Who Could That Be at This Hour?", the first book in the new Lemony Snicket series All the Wrong Questions will hit bookstores on October 23, 2012 with a first printing of one million copies.
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New Snicket Series Leaked
2/9/2012
Yesterday, Lemony Snicket inadvertently leaked the details of his new series: All the Wrong Questions, a four-book autobiographical account of his childhood to be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers this fall.
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Lemony Snicket to return with new series this fall
2/9/2012
Against the apparent wishes of the author, a new Lemony Snicket series begins this fall.
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Little, Brown Inks Snicket Deal with Handler
11/12/2009
Little, Brown has announced the title and on-sale date of Lemony Snicket's highly anticipated new series.
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