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If understated, sardonic humor is your style, you’ll enjoy Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket. Handler is speaking for free tomorrow at the Morrison Library on the UC Berkeley campus from 5pm.

One caution: if you have a child who is a Lemony Snicket fan (and someone has bought 53 million Lemony Snicket books), they may find Handler in person a more difficult character to enjoy. My son devoured all 13 in A Series of Unfortunate Events and was excited to see Handler in Walnut Creek, of all places, earlier this year. I thought he was hilarious, but his dark, dead-pan style totally eluded my 10-year old.

Handler’s talk is the first in a series of readings by Bay Area writers at the Morrison Library. Future readings include Annie Barrows and Dave Eggers.

Lance Knobel Books