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February 17, 2005
Eating Ham for Uncle Sam
Walking near my parents\’ home in Florida — where I\’m writing this column — I noticed a hat with World War II insignias, much like the one my father sometimes wears, in the back window of a parked car. I\’d just finished reading \”GI JEWS: How World War II Changed a Generation\” by Deborah Dash Moore, so the image of the hat really struck me, and I imagined that most men on this street must own similar versions.
Shadows of Shoah in ‘Snicket’ World
Daniel Handler looks like a character in one of his own \”Lemony Snicket\” novels. At a breakfast interview with The Journal at a New York café, he wears a pinstriped suit with a handkerchief in the pocket — reminiscent of something the bumbling Mr. Poe might wear when he deposits the unfortunate Baudelaire orphans at the home of a relative who wants to kill them and collect their fortune. In repose and in photographs, Handler\’s face turns dole, as if, like Snicket, he is turned melancholy by the events he narrates.
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