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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: Episode 351 — Daniel Handler
Description: Daniel Handler is the guest. His new novel We Are Pirates is now available from Bloomsbury.Â
Booklist, in a starred review, says
"Handler (aka children's author Lemony Snicket) has never been known for writing precisely happy novels, and his latest certainly doesn't deviate. What could easily have been a slightly silly, fantastical romp becomes, instead, in Handler's capable hands, a macabre, darkly human portrayal of family dynamics and growing up in a world running low on adventure . . . peppered with black humor."
And Jess Walter says
"We Are Pirates will dazzle, disturb, and delight you. It might even do things t...