<a href='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h1f4F4fuMw0/VPP1Gz4c1_I/AAAAAAAAGNY/zzboczhpStc/s1600/WE-ARE-PIRATES_612x380_0.jpg'></a>It was Thoreau who said that “the masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” The characters at the center of Daniel Handler’s new adult novel  <a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608196887/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1608196887&linkCode=as2&tag=jeffschechtma-20&linkId=4YLP2F4E5MXQ5FGR'>We Are Pirates</a> want very badly to avoid that fate.  And yet, they find that sometimes the alternative is even more desperation.<br>
My conversation with Daniel Handler:

It was Thoreau who said that “the masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” The characters at the center of Daniel Handler’s new adult novel We Are Pirates want very badly to avoid that fate. And yet, they find that sometimes the alternative is even more desperation. My conversation with Daniel Handler:

<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h1f4F4fuMw0/VPP1Gz4c1_I/AAAAAAAAGNY/zzboczhpStc/s1600/WE-ARE-PIRATES_612x380_0.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>It was Thoreau who said that “the masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” The characters at the center of Daniel Handler’s new adult novel &nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608196887/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1608196887&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jeffschechtma-20&amp;linkId=4YLP2F4E5MXQ5FGR" rel="noopener noreferrer">We Are Pirates</a>&nbsp;want very badly to avoid that fate. &nbsp;And yet, they find that sometimes the alternative is even more desperation.<br>
My conversation with Daniel Handler:

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