The mysterious Lemony Snicket will appear in Hailey on Sunday evening at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater.
Best known for penning the series of 13 books A Series of Unfortunate Events, author Daniel Handler will address the audience and talk about fairy tales!
Daniel Handler, author of the wildly popular Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, will speak in Hailey on November 18. The lecture is the second in the Sun Valley Center for the Arts 2012–2013 Lecture Series.
As most elementary and middle school students know, “if you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” So begins the first of the 13 books about the adventures of the orphaned Baudelaire siblings, as narrated by the lugubrious Lemony Snicket (whose childhood hobbies include taxidermy and playing the harpischord).
The person behind the pen name, Daniel Handler, will discuss the long and venerable tradition of fairy tales and scary stories to which his Series of Unfortunate Events belongs. His talk part of an ongoing exhibition and project at The Center called Happily Ever After?, which explores the roots and modern implications of fairy tales through visual arts, theater, classes and literature.
Called “an American Nabokov” and “one of our most dazzling literary conjurors” by fellow writers Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon, Handler has also written books for adults and young adults, as well as several screenplays. The first in his new series of children’s books, Who Could That Be at This Hour?, is being released this month. Kirkus Review said the book is full of "gothic wackiness, linguistic play and literary allusions....Fans of the Series of Unfortunate Events will be in heaven picking out tidbit references to the tridecalogy, but readers who've yet to delve into that well of sadness will have no problem enjoying this weird and witty yarn."
Tickets to the lecture are available online at www.sunvalleycenter.org for $15 members / $25 nonmembers / $5 students. Tickets can also be purchased by phone at 208.726.9491 ex 10 or stop by The Center in Ketchum. The lecture will be held at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater starting at 6:30pm.
The Daniel Handler lecture is generously sponsored by Judith and Richard Smooke, with support from Don and Marcia Liebich.
