![]() “The last couple of Snicket tours that I’ve gone on, I’ve been meeting more and more people in their 20s who grew up on my work. Will the readership for We Are Pirates be those irony savvy kids who grew up reading Lemony Snicket? “I don’t know,” he replies. ![]() And there seem to be people who get that. ![]() “I think all of my work has a certain tone: it looks askance at the world, it understands that it can be serious and hilarious at the same time. To enjoy it, Handler argues, you’ll need the temperament his son mastered when preverbal. But we’re meeting to talk about his latest foray into grownup fiction, a novel called We Are Pirates. Handler, a 44-year-old San Franciscan, completed the Lemony Snicket books in 2006, and then started a sequence of prequels called All the Wrong Questions, which so far amounts to five novels. I still meet children who, when I make that kind of joke, are alarmed.” Handler affects dismay that such children exist. Or I’d say: ‘If I see a piece of gum on the sidewalk I’m going to fall on the ground,’ and he’d point at the gum. ![]() “Before he could talk,” says Handler, “we would go for a walk and I would say: ‘If I see a tree, I’m going to go crazy,’ and he would point at a tree and I would pretend to go crazy. ![]() Daniel and Lisa’s nine-year-old son, Otto, perhaps unsurprisingly given his genetic makeup, understood all this very early. ![]()
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