Daniel Handler

Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And it's true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that she's not a murderer at all -- she's a murderess.

A Novel

The Basic Eight

From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), an eagerly anticipated, gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic lives and impulses of an all-too-typical young man. Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches in a sketchbook, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters, next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says, "Draw a number line, with zero is, you never think about sex, and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex." Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls--girls who seem to enjoy it at the time and seem to feel bad about it afterwards. Cole is getting a reputation around school--a not quite savory one--which leaves him adrift and hanging out with his best friend. Which is when something startling begins to happen between them--another kind of adventure, unexpected and hot, that might be what he's been after all this time. And then he meets Grisaille. A companion piece to Handler's Why We Broke Up, the bestselling Michael J. Printz Honor novel, All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on the varied and ribald world of teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where queer can be as fluid as consent, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like. Structured in short chapters recalling Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation or Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever, the novel gives us a tender, brutal, funny, and always intoxicating portrait of an age in which the whole world is tilted through the lens of sex. "There are love stories galore," Cole tells us, "and we all know them. This isn't that. The story I'm typing is all the dirty parts."

All the Dirty Parts

Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

Why We Broke Up

A father and daughter, dreaming of outlaw glory, assemble ragtag crews to pursue their respective ambitions to become pirates in the San Francisco Bay. By the best-selling author of Who Could That Be at This Hour?

We Are Pirates

Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way.In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level....

Watch Your Mouth

Maira Kalman

Y por eso rompimos, de Daniel Handler y Maira Kalman, es posiblemente la primera historia digital por entregas de una ruptura. Dividida en 8 episodios, es una experiencia novedosa que te hará disfrutar, a modo de píldoras, del relato de una historia de amor que no acabó bien. A través de una carta, Min quiere explicar a Ed las razones que causaron su ruptura y ha preparado una caja para devolverle todos los objetos que le recuerdan su relación, unos objetos cargados de significado y de historia. Voy camino a casa de Ed. Llevo en mis manos una caja repleta de objetos que un día lo significaron todo para nosotros, todos los recuerdos que conservo de nuestra relación. Ahora mismo estoy escribiéndote una carta. Cuando la acabe, la meteré también en la caja y te la daré. La carta explica nuestra historia, una historia preciosa pero dolorosa, una historia que hay que comprender poco a poco, sin prisa. Te entregaré esta caja, Ed. Dentro está todo: Las dos chapas de botellas de Scarpia?s Bitter Black Ale que nos bebimos aquella noche en el jardín trasero de la casa de Al. Recuerdo las estrellas brillando y nuestro aliento condensado por el frío. La entrada de cine para ver la película en la que nos dimos nuestro primer beso. Me besaste a los veinte minutos de haber empezado... y luego otra vez en la escena final. El afiche de la película que robaste para mí, para que conservara el recuerdo de nuestra primera cita. Fue muy tierno, gracias. Pero ya no lo quiero. Pero eso no es todo. Aún quedan muchas razones que explicar, las que hay detrás de la caja de cerillas, la cámara de fotos y su carrete, el molinillo de papel y la hoja de papel arrugado...

Y por eso rompimos (Episodio 1)

A sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms.al realms.

Bottle Grove

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up. Min has written a letter explaining why. She'sdelivering it with a box that's full of the debris of their relationship: two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, Ed's protractor, some sugar they stole, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings and the rest of it. Each item is illustrated and accounted for; each memory played out until the heartbreaking end.Min will dump the box on Ed's porch - but it is Ed who is being dumped.This is the story of why they broke up.

Presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2013, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative comics.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014

Montserrat Nieto

Y por eso rompimos

Lemony Snicket

After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room

Hurry Up and Wait, the second volume in a new series of collaborations between artist Maira Kalman, author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is a whimsical collection of images that capture people in motion or not. In snapshots by the likes of Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Dorothea Lange, Garry Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans, some people stride forth, dash across streets, race on bicycles, and jump over puddles, while others form snaking lines, daydream on park benches, and linger on sidewalks with friends. So whats the rush? With 11 new vibrant illustrations by Kalman inspired by photographs in MoMAs collection, and thought-provoking prose by Handler that ponder the merits of action, Hurry Up and Wait is a spirited reflection on the daily rhythms of life.

Hurry Up and Wait

Combines text and original artwork in a meditation on memory, childhood, nostalgia, and home that reflects on vintage photographs from the Museum of Modern Art.

Girls Standing on the Lawn

Der gutaussehende Ed ist der Star der Basketballmannschaft, Min eine sensible, künstlerisch angehauchte Filmnärrin, die kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt. Als sich beide auf einer Party begegnen, funkt es gewaltig. Doch beim näheren Kennenlernen zeigt sich, wie grundverschieden sie sind. Ihre Beziehung wird kurz, aber heftig voller Überraschungen und Entdeckungen, voll Bemühen und Enttäuschung. Als es aus ist, schreibt Min einen glühenden, virtuosen Brief und gibt Ed all die Dinge zurück, die in ihrer Beziehung eine Rolle gespielt haben. (Quelle: Klappentext recto).

43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

The reptile room ; The wide window

The bad beginning

Por isso a gente acabou trata, com a comicidade típica de Daniel Handler, nome verdadeiro de Lemony Snicket, de uma situação difícil pela qual todos um dia irão passar: o fim de uma relação amorosa e toda a angústia, tristeza e incerteza que essa vivência pode gerar. Min Green e Ed Slaterton estudam na mesma escola e, depois de apenas algumas semanas de convívio intenso e apaixonado, acabam o namoro. Depois de sofrer muito, Min resolve, como marco da ruptura definitiva, entregar ao garoto uma caixa repleta de objetos significativos para o casal junto com uma carta falando sobre cada um desses objetos e do episódio que ele representou, sempre acrescentando, ao final, uma nova razão para o rompimento. Essa carta é o texto de Por isso a gente acabou, que é, assim, carregado de um tom informal e tragicômico - características da personagem - e traduz com um misto de simplicidade e profundidade a história de uma separação. Imerso neste universo adolescente, o leitor conhecerá a divertida personalidade de Min, uma garota apaixonada por filmes cujo sonho é ser diretora de cinema, e as idas e vindas desse romance, desde o dia em que os dois conversaram pela primeira vez até o instante em que tudo acabou. A artista Maira Kalman, autora de diversas capas da revista The New Yorker, ilustrou cada um dos objetos da narrativa, trazendo cor e descontração a esta história dolorida.

Por isso a gente acabou

Por isso a gente acabou trata, com a comicidade típica de Daniel Handler, nome verdadeiro de Lemony Snicket, de uma situação difícil pela qual todos um dia irão passar: o fim de uma relação amorosa e toda a angústia, tristeza e incerteza que essa vivência pode gerar. Min Green e Ed Slaterton estudam na mesma escola e, depois de apenas algumas semanas de convívio intenso e apaixonado, acabam o namoro. Depois de sofrer muito, Min resolve, como marco da ruptura definitiva, entregar ao garoto uma caixa repleta de objetos significativos para o casal junto com uma carta falando sobre cada um desses objetos e do episódio que ele representou, sempre acrescentando, ao final, uma nova razão para o rompimento. Essa carta é o texto de Por isso a gente acabou, que é, assim, carregado de um tom informal e tragicômico - características da personagem - e traduz com um misto de simplicidade e profundidade a história de uma separação.Imerso neste universo adolescente, o leitor conhecerá a divertida personalidade de Min, uma garota apaixonada por filmes cujo sonho é ser diretora de cinema, e as idas e vindas desse romance, desde o dia em que os dois conversaram pela primeira vez até o instante em que tudo acabou.A artista Maira Kalman, autora de diversas capas da revista The New Yorker, ilustrou cada um dos objetos da narrativa, trazendo cor e descontração a esta história dolorida.“[...] será um dos romances mais falados da literatura juvenil. Uma história comovente e hilariante sobre um amor que foi por água abaixo.” - Kirkus Reviews

The lavishly praised Printz Honour Award winner, now in paperback Min Green and Ed Slaterton have broken up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they brokeup. A movie ticket from their first date, a comb from the motel room they shared, and every other memento collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped. Why We Broke Up is a sincere and moving portrait of first love, first heartbreak and all the firsts in between. Min's smart, sharp, devastatingly honest voice is one of the most memorable in contemporary young adult literature.

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