The Basic Eight
Author: Daniel Handler
This is not some true-crime tell-all. This is my actual journal, with everything I wrote at the time, edited by me. The revisions are minor; I only changed things when I felt that I wasn’t really thinking something that I wrote at the time, and probably would have thought something else. After all, I was only eighteen then.’,,Meet Flannery Culp, a world-weary high school s….Read More
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