Lemony Snicket & Alan Zweibel

Today, a fanciful novel by former "Saturday Night Live" writer Alan Zweibel, about an overweight, stressed-out suburban husband and father who's trying to pump some meaning into his life by running the New York City Marathon. But first, unfortunate listener, it is my sad and appalling duty to introduce you to our first upsetting author. Daniel Handler is the self-described "literary, legal and social representative" -- and alter ego -- of the aggressively elusive Lemony Snicket, whose new book for young readers is called The Penultimate Peril.