An interview with best-selling children’s author Daniel Handler in J. reveals that his tsuris-ridden alter ego, Lemony Snicket, is “quite openly Jewish.”
“Like anyone with Jewish ancestry and an over-educated world view, Lemony’s life is rife with misfortune,” Handler deadpans.
Though we’ve yet to start A Series of Unfortunate Events, our favorite 10 year-old assures us there’s “no stupid kid stuff about unicorns or anything.” Actually, the stories about the Baudelaire orphans and their nemesis Count Olaf (to be played by Jim Carrey in the upcoming movie, creepy) might make us fire up our nightlight again.