About this Event
Peabody winner Daniel Handler joins Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer for Paragraphs on Ice, a deep dive into their favorite literary passages! Sit back and listen to the words and witticisms that inspire your favorite authors, with conversation to follow. Book sales and signing, including Greer’s latest novel Villa Coco, will take place after the discussion.
Fun fact - both Daniel and Andrew are former members of Mechanics’ Institute!
About the Speakers
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of eight works of fiction, including the bestsellers Less and its companion Less Is Lost. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford and the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in San Francisco and Italy. His latest novel is Villa Coco.
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove, and his new book on writing is And Then? And Then? What Else? As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
Event venue & nearby stays
Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, United States
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