According to Heathrow airport’s Web site, best-selling author author and TFT guest contributor Alain de Botton has been appointed the “first ever airport writer-in-residence to tell the story of a week at Heathrow.” His book will be called A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, and he’s currently writing it live in the departures area of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 at the time of this posting. Heathrow communications says that Alain will “will capture the inner workings of Britain’s busiest airport, with its staff and passengers becoming the book’s contents. Parts of the book will be written from a desk at Heathrow Terminal 5, allowing passengers travelling through the airport in August to appear as characters in the story.” The book will be available at the end of September, and Heathrow plans to dish out 10,000 copies to random passengers. [Read more about the project in the Telegraph.]
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A former Travel + Leisure correspondent and NPR producer, TFT’s founding editor-at-large and travel editor Adam Baer has written for Harper’s, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times Magazine, New Yorker, GQ, Rolling ...
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