Editing Daniel Handler (section)

==Professional work==
===Books===
Six of Handler's major works have been published under his name.<ref name="sfchron_dirty">{{cite news|last1=Bennett|first1=Hayden|title='All the Dirty Parts,' by Daniel Handler|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/All-the-Dirty-Parts-by-Daniel-Handler-12162710.php|access-date=5 September 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=1 September 2017}}</ref> His first, ''[[The Basic Eight]]'', was rejected by many publishers for its subject matter and tone (a dark view of a teenage girl's life). Handler has said the novel was rejected 37 times before being published in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/daniel-handler-1798208806|title=Daniel Handler|website=The A.V. Club|date=November 16, 2005 |language=en-us|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daniel-handler/the-basic-eight/|title=The Basic Eight|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref>

''[[Watch Your Mouth (novel)|Watch Your Mouth]],'' his second novel, was completed before publication of ''The Basic Eight''. It follows a more operatic theme, complete with stage directions and various acts. ''Watch Your Mouth''{{'}}s second half replaces the opera troupe with the form of a 12-step recovery program, linguistically undergone by the protagonist.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} In April 2005, Handler published ''[[Adverbs (novel)|Adverbs]]'', a collection of short stories that he says are "about love." It was followed in 2011 by ''[[Why We Broke Up]]'', which received a 2012 Michael L. Printz honor award.<ref>[http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/printzaward/previouswinners/winners Ala.org]</ref> Handler's 2015 novel ''[[We Are Pirates]]''<ref>[http://columbiajournal.org/issues/issue-51/journal-51-table-of-contents/daniel-handler Columbiajournal.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407072505/http://columbiajournal.org/issues/issue-51/journal-51-table-of-contents/daniel-handler |date=April 7, 2014 }}</ref> is about a modern-age pirate who "wants to be an old-fashioned kind of pirate."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-10-10-lemony-snicket-main_x.htm | work=USA Today | first=Bob | last=Minzesheimer | title=An 'Unfortunate' end | date=October 11, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=We Are Pirates: A Novel |isbn = 978-1608196883|last1 = Handler|first1 = Daniel|date = February 3, 2015| publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA }}</ref> His most recent novel, ''All the Dirty Parts'', was published in 2017<ref>{{cite web|title=All the Dirty Parts|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/all-the-dirty-parts-9781632868060/|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|access-date=5 September 2017}}</ref> and "takes the blunt and constant presence of a male teen's sexuality and considers it with utmost seriousness".<ref name="sfchron_dirty" />

Handler served as a judge for the [[PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/literature/2012-penphyllis-naylor-working-writer-fellowship |title=2012 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship |access-date= February 6, 2013 |work=[[PEN American Center]]|date=November 15, 2012 }}</ref> In 2016, he founded Per Diem Press, a poetry competition for young writers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Daniel-Handler-spends-a-windfall-on-poetry-10814414.php|title=Daniel Handler spends a windfall on poetry|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref> He awarded $1,000 to three winners and published a chapbook of their work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/07/pending-daniel-handler-crowns-three-poets-per-diem-winners|title=Daniel Handler Crowns Three Poets Per Diem Winners by Harriet Staff|date=2018-06-05|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref>

====Lemony Snicket====
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[[File:Daniel Handler at Book People.PNG|thumb|right|Handler at a book signing in 2006]]
Handler wrote the bestselling series of 13 novels ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' under the Snicket pseudonym from 1999 to 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-adapting-lemony-snickets-a-746666|title=Netflix Adapting Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' Into TV Show|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 5, 2014|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> The series is about three orphaned children who experience increasingly terrible events after their parents die and their home burns. Snicket acts as the orphans' narrator and biographer.<ref>"Tortuous Tales". A Series of Unfortunate Events. n.p. Retrieved 2012-04-16.</ref> Handler narrated the [[audiobook]]s for three books in the series before handing back the narrating job to the original narrator, [[Tim Curry]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

From 2012 to 2015, Handler published the four-part series ''[[All the Wrong Questions]]'' under the name Lemony Snicket; the books explore Snicket's childhood and V.F.D. apprenticeship in the failing town Stain'd-by-the-Sea.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Healy|first=Christopher|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/books/review/all-the-wrong-questions-a-lemony-snicket-series.html|title=Unsolved Mysteries|date=2012-10-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/2012/11/3/20509168/mysteries-abound-in-lemony-snicket-s-new-all-the-wrong-questions-series|title=Mysteries abound in Lemony Snicket's new All the Wrong Questions series|last=Rappleye|first=Christine|date=2012-11-03|website=Deseret News|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/0116/Lemony-Snicket-s-All-the-Wrong-Questions-series-will-be-personalized-for-young-readers|title=Lemony Snicket's 'All the Wrong Questions' series will be personalized for young readers|date=2015-01-16|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=2020-03-18|issn=0882-7729}}</ref> He has also written other children's novels under the Snicket name, including companion books to his two Snicket series,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/postmodernism-for-kids/381739/|title=The Postmodern Brilliance of "A Series of Unfortunate Events"|last=Cruz|first=Lenika|date=2014-10-23|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> and children's books such as ''[[The Composer is Dead]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101669557|title=Lemony Snicket's Musical Murder Mystery|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> and ''[[The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Blum|first=Matt|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/12/latke-who-couldnt-stop-screaming/|title=Lemony Snicket's The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (GeekDad Wayback Machine)|date=2011-12-10|magazine=Wired|access-date=2020-03-18|issn=1059-1028}}</ref>

=== Music ===
{{BLP sources section|date=March 2020}}[[File:Daniel Handler singing 2006-10-28.jpg|left|thumb|Handler playing and singing at a reading of ''[[The End (novel)|The End]]'' in 2006]]

Handler was in two bands after college, the Edith Head Trio and Tzamboni, but his music received little attention until ''[[69 Love Songs]]'', a three-album set by [[The Magnetic Fields]] on which he played accordion.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Robinson|first=Tasha|url=https://www.avclub.com/daniel-handler-1798208806|title=Daniel Handler|date=November 16, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/57151/merritt-returns-to-bubble-gum-goth-on-new-album|title=Merritt Returns To 'Bubble-Gum Goth' On New Album|date=2006-09-25|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Jurgensen|first=John|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120250925409554929|title=Magnetic Fields: On the Road|date=2008-02-09|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> In the box set of the project, Handler interviews band leader [[Stephin Merritt]] about the project. He also appears in Kerthy Fix's and [[Gail O'Hara]]'s 2009 documentary ''Strange Powers,'' about Merritt and the Magnetic Fields.

Handler has played accordion in several other Merritt projects, including [[The 6ths]] and [[The Gothic Archies]], the last of which provided songs for the ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' audiobooks. In 2006, a Gothic Archies album was released with all 13 songs from the 13 ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' audiobooks, along with two bonus songs.

In the audio commentary on the film adaptation ''[[Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', Handler plays a song about how depressing it is to have leeches in a film.

Handler wrote the lyrics to the song "Radio", performed by [[One Ring Zero]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/09/26/one_ring_zero_weaves_writers_words_into_song?pg=full|title=One Ring Zero weaves writers' words into song|website=The Boston Globe|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> and "The Gibbons Girl", by [[Figures on a Beach|Chris Ewen]]'s The Hidden Variable.

=== Theater ===
In 2017, Handler wrote the play ''Imaginary Comforts'', ''and The Story of The Ghost of The Dead Rabbit'', which was performed at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.onstageblog.com/reviews/2017/12/3/review-imaginary-comforts-or-the-story-of-the-ghost-of-the-dead-rabbit-at-berkeley-repertory-theatre|title=Review: "Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre|work=OnStage Blog|access-date=2018-05-25|language=en-US}}</ref> The satirical play follows the intertwining lives of three characters and is inspired by the grief Handler felt after his father's death.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailycal.org/2017/10/12/daniel-handler-imaginary-comforts-berkeley-rep/|title=Down the rabbit hole with 'Imaginary Comforts' writer Daniel Handler|date=2017-10-12|work=The Daily Californian|access-date=2018-05-25|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Film and television ===
Handler has also had some success in film. He produced the screenplay for [[Rick (film)|''Rick'']], based on the [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]] opera ''[[Rigoletto (opera)|Rigoletto]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|last=Salamon|first=Julie|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/movies/lemony-snickets-down-and-dirty-indie.html|title=Lemony Snicket's Down and Dirty Indie|date=2004-09-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> as well as [[Kill the Poor (film)|''Kill the Poor'']], based on the novel by [[Joel Rose]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lee|first=Nathan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/movies/ragtag-tenants-in-a-shabby-part-of-town.html|title=Ragtag Tenants in a Shabby Part of Town|date=2006-01-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Handler was involved in the screenwriting process for the film ''[[Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' but was ultimately removed from the project. After writing eight drafts of the script for Sonnenfeld,<ref name="Mason">{{cite news|author=Spence D.|url=http://movies.ign.com/articles/574/574000p1.html|title=Interview: Lemony Snicket|date=December 16, 2004|work=[[IGN]]|access-date=April 7, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208005631/http://movies.ign.com/articles/574/574000p1.html|archive-date=December 8, 2006}}</ref> he was replaced by [[Robert Gordon (screenwriter)|Robert Gordon]] in May 2003.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fleming|first=Michael|url=https://variety.com/2003/film/news/scribe-brings-new-map-to-snicket-thicket-1117885786/|title=Scribe brings new map to ''Snicket'' thicket|date=May 7, 2003|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=April 5, 2009}}</ref> Handler approved of the changes that were made to his original screenplay.<ref name="old">{{cite news|last=Archerd|first=Army|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/columns/crystal-king-on-b-way-1117914932/|title=Crystal king on B'way|date=December 13, 2004|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=April 5, 2009|author-link=Army Archerd}}</ref> "I was offered credit on the film for screenwriting by the [[Writers Guild of America]]," Handler said, "but I didn't take it because I didn't write it. I felt like it would be an insult to the guy who did."<ref name="Mason" />

Handler submitted a commentary track for the DVD version alongside director [[Brad Silberling]]. In character as Lemony Snicket, he derides the Lemony Snicket in the film as an impostor and plays the accordion and sings about leeches rather than pay attention to the film. Many times during the track, he shows great sympathy towards the Baudelaire children and implies that he is being held captive by the director to do the commentary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The DVD Journal: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events |url=http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/l/lemonysnicket.shtml |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=www.dvdjournal.com}}</ref>

Handler was a writer on the Netflix series ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series)|A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', also contributing lyrics to the show's theme song, which varies each episode.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2017/10/25/daniel-handler-lemony-snicket-explains-why-less-involved-with-unfortunate-events-netflix/0ecmEEppx6fUoK7t9CZUFN/story.html|title=Daniel Handler (a.k.a Lemony Snicket) explains why he's less involved with 'Unfortunate Events' on Netflix - The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://decider.com/2018/04/09/a-series-of-unfortunate-events-opening-credits/|title=Here's What Went Into Making 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' Superb Theme Song|date=2018-04-09|work=Decider|access-date=2018-05-18|language=en-US}}</ref> The show has won several accolades, including a [[Peabody Award]] in 2017 for excellence in children's and youth programming.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://peabodyawards.com/stories/story/highlighting-the-best-storytelling-of-2017|title=Highlighting the Best Storytelling of 2017|access-date=2018-05-18|language=en|archive-date=July 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723003953/http://peabodyawards.com/stories/story/highlighting-the-best-storytelling-of-2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>