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Daniel Handler & Sarah Manguso

Sunday, September 8, 2024
7:30pm Pacific Time
KQED Broadcast: 09/08/2024

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With And Then? And Then? What Else?, Daniel Handler examines the challenging and often amusing path toward one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers of the twenty-first century. Whether written under the pen name Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate EventsAll the Wrong Questions), or under his own name (Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates), Handler’s sardonic sense of humor and deep pathos has engaged us across genres for over twenty-five years.

Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including the novel Very Cold People, a story collection, two poetry collections, and four acclaimed works of nonfiction: 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay. About her newest novel Liars, Nick Hornby writes that it is  “a white-hot dissection of the power imbalances in a marriage, and as gripping as you want fiction to be. Any spouse that has ever argued about money, time, work and childcare should read it.”