And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer's Life Hardcover – 27 Jun. 2024

This book was such a delightful read, and a closer look at how we all form our own personal canon, and how honoring the things we've read/watched, the things that have influenced us is a way to make us better writers. Handler shares his reading journey as well as his writing journey, and how his brain making sense of things, even misconstruing and playing with books, poems, snippets, and signs has created the delightful voice we know from his fiction under his name and in Lemony Snicket. Snicket fans will love the easter eggs, so for every reader who asks, "where did you get your idea?" here are so many answers. But Handler's honesty and openness are what make this book sing, as he raises larger questions about how we quantify, qualify, and judge. Perfect gift for those deep readers in your life.