An interesting twist on Writer-in-Residence

This New York Times article made me wish I were heading through Heathrow this week, not just to visit London but to check out the airport's writer-in-residence: author Alain de Botton, (How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel).

As the Times reports, the gig was orchestrated by Heathrow's public relations firm (which includes the author's expenses as well as an advance — he's writing a book about the experience to be published this fall), but de Botton was given free rein to write ab