Listen "Daniel Handler & Andrew Sean Greer"
Episode Synopsis
Daniel Handler’s sardonic sense of humor and deep pathos have engaged readers across genres for over twenty-five years. Handler’s best known for his series of children’s books A Series of Unfortunate Events under the pen name Lemony Snicket). His books published under his own name include Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates), and the memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else? which has just been published in paperback. Andrew Sean Greer’s six works of fiction include the bestsellers The Story of a Marriage, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Less (which earned him the Pulitzer Prize), and Less is Lost. On October 8, 2025, Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer took to the stage of the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, for a program they call “Paragraphs on Ice!” in which they dissect paragraphs written by other notable authors. It was a lesson in the art of writing – and the art of close reading.
More episodes of the podcast City Arts & Lectures
Encore - Ross Gay
11/01/2026
Angela Davis with Deepa Fernandez
04/01/2026
Encore - Frank Gehry
28/12/2025
Encore - Rachel Kushner
21/12/2025
Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas
14/12/2025
Padma Lakshmi
07/12/2025
Salman Rushdie
30/11/2025
Richard Misrach
23/11/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.