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Dan Kieran (born 10 June 1975) is a British travel writer, humorist, literary editor and entrepreneur. He is best known for his travel books and for his role as deputy editor of The Idler between 2000 and 2010. He is also co-founder (with John Mitchinson and Justin Pollard) of the publishing company Unbound and was its CEO for the first eleven years. "21st Century Publishing builds on a healthy radical tradition", The Guardian, 17 August 2013. "Boulton appointed Managing Director of Unbound as Kieran steps down", The Bookseller, 31 March 2022.
Kieran is author of Do Start: How to create and run a business that doesn't run you, The Surfboard, The Idle Traveller,Joe Barry, "Life in the fast lane not all it's made out to be", Independent (Ireland), 23 July 2014.William Leith, "The Idle Traveller by Dan Kieran: review", The Telegraph, 28 June 2012. I Fought The Law, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Three Men In A Float (with Ian Vince).
Three Men In A Float became a half-hour BBC Radio 4 programme of the same name, which Kieran presented with Ian Vince and Prasanth Visweswaran. It aired on 27 February 2008. "Three Men In A Float", BBC.
Kieran is editor of Idler Books' Crap Jobs, Crap Holidays ( Crap Vacations in the United States), The Book of Idle Pleasures; and co-editor of two volumes of Crap Towns.
His writing credits include The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian.
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