Alain de Botton

A Week at the Airport, By Alain de Botton

The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

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The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

The philosopher discusses his new book A Week At the Airport

Dan Hill reviews A Week at the Airport, by Alain de Botton

Tomorrow Museum (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

Dan Hill reviews Alain de Botton’s book about his residency at Heathrow Airport: “A central theme is the (accurate, I think) impression that few industries are as “vulnerable to disaster” as commercial aviation, but that this leads essentially to a kind of pervasive frustration running through much of the experience. Here, the business simply cannot [...]

A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, by Alain de Botton

cityofsound (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

... commercial aviation in the long run), does however give me enough time to both start and finish Alain de Botton’s A Week at the Airport , his account of spending, well, a week at the airport, as writer-in-residence at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, courtesy of BAA . To my mild surprise, I enjoyed it hugely. I’d picked it up at Brisbane airport’s sorry-excuse-for-a-bookshop, like I had previously...

Book Grocer: 1-7 December

Londonist (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009

... to ask. Waterstones Goodge Street are holding their Christmas signing extravaganza between 5-8pm; Alain de Botton, Simon Callow, Kate Mosse, Robin Ince and Ariane Sherine are just a few of the authors who'll be present. Friday: At 2pm, two new poems will be unveiled around the base of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, celebrating Oslo's annual gift to our fair city. According to...

Got travel?

What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009

Edward Hopper, Compartment C, Car 293 (1938) Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. --Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel (2002)...

Western Literary Magazine Roundup

New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... for purchase online) on December 17. It will include work by London-based writer and philosopher Alain de Botton, skier Scot Schmidt, and political cartoonist Jeff Danziger. Also in the Roundup: CutBank, Isotope, and Idaho Review.

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Western Literary Magazine Roundup

NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... for purchase online) on December 17. It will include work by London-based writer and philosopher Alain de Botton, skier Scot Schmidt, and political cartoonist Jeff Danziger. Also in the Roundup: CutBank, Isotope, and Idaho Review.

Western Literary Magazine Roundup

NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... for purchase online) on December 17. It will include work by London-based writer and philosopher Alain de Botton, skier Scot Schmidt, and political cartoonist Jeff Danziger. Also in the Roundup: CutBank, Isotope, and Idaho Review.

Western Literary Magazine Roundup

NewWest.Net Boulder (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... for purchase online) on December 17. It will include work by London-based writer and philosopher Alain de Botton, skier Scot Schmidt, and political cartoonist Jeff Danziger. Also in the Roundup: CutBank, Isotope, and Idaho Review.

A Week at the Airport

Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

With his review Alain de Botton’s A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, Dan Hill adds another book to my to-read pile: He is particularly good on the peculiar sense of pervasive yet largely internalised tension created by the emotional and psychological pressures of airports. He makes a series of acute observations predicated on this [...]

Celebs to plant orchard on runway site to oppose expansion at Heathrow

Cut Global Warming (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

... on the runway site today (Friday) at noon to dig the orchard, while Heathrow writer-in-residence Alain de Botton – who was famously recruited by BAA to spend a week at the airport and write about his experiences – is adopting a Cox apple tree in the orchard. Conservative leader David Cameron is also adopting a tree. The planting of the orchard represents the re-introduction of the...

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, edited by Susannah Carson: A Review

Jane Austen's World (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

... editor Susannah Carson (a doctoral candidate) takes a back seat to Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Alain de Botton, Jay McInerney, Anna Quindlen, and Eudora Welty. Esteemed literary critic, Harold Bloom, wrote the foreword. As I read this new book, my gratitude towards these eloquent writers grew. L-R: Alain de Botton, Anna Quinlan, Harold Bloom, Eudora Welty, E.M.Forster,...

Friendship, Houseguests and Peanut Brittle

Bzangy Groink (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Cookie Monster - he knows how to be happy. Lately, I’ve been re-reading Alain de Botton’s ‘Consolations of Philosophy.’ My life has, for the last year, been distinctly not-great. I remembered de Botton’s book providing me with some measure of calm previously so I thought I’d dip back into it. Also lately, I’ve started a sociology [...]

Heathrow writer-in-residence helps plant orchard to stop the third runway

Greenpeace UK blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

... actress Alison Steadman, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and former Heathrow writer-in-residence Alain de Botton, we're planting yet more roots into the land we own on behalf of tens of thousands of people around the world, a right spanner in the works for advocates of bigger airports at Heathrow and elsewhere. The Sipson field is crowded: Alison and Carol Ann rubbing shoulders with...