O’Hanlon Gets His Close-Up
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.17.05 | 1:21 AM ET
Bravo, Jon Stewart! Monday night on The Daily Show he went where few other television hosts have gone before: he had a travel writer as a guest. Redmond O’Hanlon promoted his new book, Trawler, with tales of adventure on the high seas as well as an ancient sea creature that he presented to Stewart—in a jar, wrapped in a pair of boxer shorts. O’Hanlon, it seems, knows how to make an impression. In a profile in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle, John Flinn called his travel books “among the most hilarious, most harrowing, most learned and most deliciously twisted ever written.” Flinn continued: “He’s not nearly as well known as he ought to be, but those who do what he does put him at the very top of the field. When I asked two writers I admire, Tim Cahill and Bill Bryson, which writers they admire, they both cited O’Hanlon without hesitation. Bryson calls him ‘probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language, and certainly the most daring.’ He also calls him ‘wonderfully odd.’” Anyone who saw him on The Daily Show will probably agree.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
