Dan Kelly – The Spinoff

The superstar foreign correspondent who failed to report on himself

6 September 2016 by Dan Kelly

Dan Kelly reviews Far and Away: Reporting on the Brink of Change, a collection of reportage by superstar US foreign correspondent Andrew Solomon. The task undertaken by Andrew Solomon in Far And Away, a collection of travel writing and reportage spanning 25 years and some 23 countries, is more than the urge to document and bear … Read more

Mr Knausgaard, I presume

7 June 20167 June 2016 by Dan Kelly

In which Dan Kelly – our man in New York – heads into Soho to see the world’s greatest writer speak at a bar. Meeting your heroes can be risky: expectation loves disappointment. But like everyone before me, I didn’t care. This was Karl Ove Knausgaard, Norwegian literary sensation and author of the critically acclaimed … Read more