ONCE REMOVED, stories

144pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

"David Mann's debut collection of stories about art and artists is elegant, plaintive, wry and urgent. It is an affectionate deliberation of the importance of art - and writing about it - in our current time of disquiet." Sean O'Toole, author of The Object and The Green Interior

“The stories comprising Once Removed are consistently excellent... I have not been this compelled by a collection of short fiction in a considerable time.” Prof. Michael Titlestad, Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand

Editor and arts writer David Mann currently works as the writer for The Centre for the Less Good Idea. He lives in Johannesburg.