Italian bank raids, Alinghi loss and end of homework in Zurich? Oct 31, 2009
Feminism-defying beauty queens, justice-defying film directors, Alain de Botton. LIVESTREAMS. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Polanski, People's Party poster and pumpkins in this week's fare Oct 10, 2009
Feminism-defying beauty queens, justice-defying film directors, Alain de Botton. Current Affairs. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Feminism-defying beauty queens, justice-defying film directors, Alain de Botton. Oct 3, 2009
Feminism-defying beauty queens, justice-defying film directors, Alain de Botton ... Feminism-defying beauty queens, justice-defying film directors, Alain de Botton. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Verbal grenades at speakers' corner Sep 23, 2009
The nerdish pop philosopher Alain de Botton packed out the 1500-seat Opera Theatre in April. All but one of Fairfax's 10 IQ2 debates have had a sell-out audience of 1200 and a debate on whether Australia is indeed a sporting nation went live via t 00004000 he internet to 13,000 people. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Airport hires an author? Aug 22, 2009
Author Alain de Botton writes at his desk in the check-in area during his week as writer-in-residence at Heathrow Airport ... Alain de Botton, a popular philosopher known for works like "How Proust Can Change Your Life", set up his laptop this week at the airport's new Terminal 5, where his writing appears on a screen behind him as he types. (iAfrica.com)
Heathrow Gets Its Own 'Writer in Residence' Aug 21, 2009
Alain de Botton Moves into the Airport to Pen New Behind the Scenes Book. By CORNELIA TREPTOWLONDON, August 20, 2009. (ABC News)
Infotainment Aug 21, 2009
Alain de Botton, a popular philosopher known for works like How Proust Can Change Your Life, set up his laptop this week at the airports new. Daily Times - All Rights Reserved. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
UK airport hires writer to tell travelers tales Aug 20, 2009
Alain de Botton, author of highbrow best-sellers including "The Consolations of Philosophy" and "How Proust Can Change Your Life," is spending a week inside Heathrow's Terminal 5, the airport said Wednesday. De Botton began his stint Tuesday and spends some of the time sitting behind a desk in the departures area, observing and interviewing passengers and staff. (MSNBC -- Travel)
All Men are Liars: Aug 20, 2009
The answer you seek is revealed in a book "Predictably Irrational. firstday August 19, 2009 05:30 PM $100K a year? If I stand up on my tippy-toes and use binoculars I think I can just see that far off in the distance. Maybe I got reach it if I tried, but I refuse to get caught on the treadmill of sacrificing my life, my wife and my children just to earn more and buy things I'll never have the time to enjoy. To me it's all about priorities. My priority lies with my family, so I will invest my... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
* Popular writer turns into resident writer at Heathrow Aug 20, 2009
Travelers passing through Heathrow Airport in London this week may be surprised to encounter, in the middle of its bustling Terminal 5, the writer Alain de Botton, author of popular books including How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel, seated at a desk and tapping away at his laptop computer. His typing appears in real time on a screen behind him, and a placard explains X in what apparently is both a literary and aeronautic first X that de Botton is serving a one-week... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Airport gets writer-in-residence Aug 19, 2009
Philosopher Alain de Botton is to be the first ever writer-in-residence at a UK airport. De Botton is spending a week in Heathrow's Terminal Five, where he will have access to all areas, and is due to write a book about the experience. (BBC News -- UK)
The author’s big mistake Aug 14, 2009
Another writer previously regarded as sane, Alain de Botton, took to the internets to trash reviewer Caleb Crain: I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make. Boys and girls, attend now Samuel Johnson, perhaps both the greatest writer and the greatest heart of the English language. (Boston Globe)
'Bitter' theatre director aims poison pen at critics Jul 30, 2009
Bitter' theatre director aims poison pen at critics - Arts - Entertainment. The Age: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Melbourne's leading newspaper. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Author takes a look at today's idea of work through history Jul 27, 2009
Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain de Botton; Knopf Doubleday, 352 pages, $26 ... This, argues Alain de Botton in The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, is a shame. (USA Today -- Money)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] Religion, stuck between a rock and a hard place Jul 26, 2009
By Alain de Botton THE GUARDIAN, LONDON Sunday, Jul 26, 2009, Page 14. Karen Armstrong is one of the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion who has become distressed by the tone of recent discussions of the subject. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Tech 'has changed foreign policy' Jul 22, 2009
Previous speakers had included Swiss philosopher Alain de Botton and British comedian and tech enthusiast Stephen Fry. This year's conference runs from 21 to 24 July in Oxford, UK.. (BBC News -- Science)
Kicking The Critic Jul 3, 2009
After reading a takedown of his "Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" in the New York Times Book Review, Alain de Botton lambasted critic Caleb Crain on Crain's personal blog, writing, "I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make." (De Botton later apologized for his outburst on Twitter, saying, "I am so sorry and ashamed of myself.") Earlier this week, Hoffman tweeted that Roberta Silman, who negatively reviewed her "The Story Sisters" in the... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Alain de Botton, Matthew Crawford on working Jun 25, 2009
Alain de Botton's new philosophical treatise, "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work," feels like an intellectual acid trip without the stimulants ... 95) Alain de Botton's new. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Has Marriage Become the Sacred Cow of Feminism? Jun 17, 2009
In the NY Post's interview with Alain de Botton yesterday, there was this fun quote: "In the middle of the 18th century, along comes this incredible new idea that you might actually love the person you're married to. Extraordinary! Never believed before in human history.". or to post comments. (Slate)
Mark your calendar Jun 4, 2009
Author Alain de Botton at the Institute of Contemporary Art. JUNE 9 | "Linda Eder Sings Judy Garland" with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops opens at Symphony Hall. (Boston Globe)
Writers pay tribute to John Updike May 31, 2009
Work satisfaction In the new book "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" (Pantheon), a career counselor tells author Alain de Botton the "most common and unhelpful illusion" among his clients is the idea they should have determined their true calling long ago. The counselor takes heart in psychologist Abraham Maslow's view: "It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.". (Boston Globe)
The Things We Do for Money May 29, 2009
Alain de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work - BusinessWeek ... The Pleasures and Sorrows of WorkBy Alain de BottonPantheon; 327 pp ... Alain de Botton is the Swiss-born heir to a massive fortune; his father, Gilbert, co-founded Global Asset Management alongside Jacob Rothschild. (BusinessWeek)
Change can be good May 13, 2009
Nor are our careers established and set in stone at the age of 16 as Alain de Botton claims. Nor are the changes so dramatic that the gene pool has mutated to produce a wholly new species called Gen Y (yet more convincing peer-reviewed evidence of the non-differences between Gen Ys and human beings by Narelle Hess is about to be published in Career Development International). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
The worst is yet to come May 1, 2009
" According to Alain de Botton, author of The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work, changing careers is a little bit like coming out. "If you are an accountant and you say you want to be a carpenter, people can react negatively," he says. "But don't let their expectations become a cage for you. " From telco to telemarketing When Frank Boffa was headhunted from Telstra late last year, he was thrilled and looked forward to a more secure work environment. "Telstra was undergoing redundancies, so I was... (Sydney Morning Herald)
The way words work Apr 5, 2009
Though he has never needed to work, Alain de Botton prefers to earn his living from writing ... IS ALAIN de Botton the biggest pseud and poseur of all time, or a brilliant writer who asks intriguing questions. (Sydney Morning Herald)
* An unrivaled capacity to excite desire X the hidden pleasures of the office Mar 28, 2009
By Alain de Botton THE GUARDAIN , LONDON Saturday, Mar 28, 2009, Page 9. As some of us clear our desks for the last time, and many more of us look around with new gratitude at our workstations, we should pause to appreciate the intense, rarely mentioned and often denigrated pleasures that are involved in going to the office. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
* Labors journey from job to work to little rows of noughts Mar 19, 2009
As Alain de Botton argues in his new book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, ours is the first society to believe that work should make us happy, even in the absence of a financial imperative. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Your say How can the 'thin is beautiful' mentality be turned around? Mar 4, 2009
A recent addition to my bathroom cupboard of creams and lotions (and the single best beauty tip I have discovered) has been the following quote by Alain de Botton. There is a tyranny about perfection, a certain tedium even, something that asserts itself with all the dogmatism of a scientific formula. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
