All about Alain de Botton’s book: A Week at the Airport
Aaron Britt, the senior editor over at Dwell Magazine has been reading Alain de Botton’s book, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, and was pretty sure fans of Stuck at the Airport would be interested in his two-part review.
He’s right. de Botton’s book is all about the time he spent as writer-in-residence at the British Airways terminal in London’s Heathrow Airport.
If you haven’t got your own copy of the book yet, you can read an excerpt in the New York Times and then wing your way over to Britt’s review.
Here’s an excerpt from that:
Britt plans to post the second part of his review on Thursday and says:
I think that the second half, dominated by an assessment of what’s beyond the security gate is far more fruitful for de Botton. His natural position of informed ruminator gets going as he takes us on more of a guided tour of the security zone, shopping area, and first class lounge. He’s best when making connection between physical spaces and desire then when focusing on individual people. The space itself, and more importantly, our rituals in it show through better in the second half, the throat-clearing of the early pages now nicely laid to rest.
Related posts:
- Read a book, get miles. Or win a trip to Disney World
- Phone book art at Philadelphia Airport
- Book art at Albany International Airport (ALB)
- Stuck at Sacramento International Airport? Grab a coupon book.
One Response to “All about Alain de Botton’s book: A Week at the Airport”
Discussion Area - Leave a Comment
Ultimate airport souvenir: $200,000 bottle of gin
[...] reading here: Alain de Botton's book: A week at the airport | Stuck at the Airport Posted in Heathrow Airport News | Tags: aaron-britt, alain, britt, diary, dwell, [...]