Alain de Botton

That Nice Mr Alain de Botton Can Be Nasty Too!

by Mark Simpson
August 11, 2009February 7, 2022

It’s just been drawn to my slow-witted attention that the ‘popular philospher’ and professionally nice Alain de Botton last month had an hilarious hissy fit over a critical review of his latest offering ‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work’ by Caleb Crain in the New York Times. Now, none of us writer types like bad… Read More »That Nice Mr Alain de Botton Can Be Nasty Too!

The Botton Line

by Mark Simpson
September 29, 2008February 4, 2022

Mark Simpson is mystified by the aim of a book that obscures its author’s own status – and anxiety (Independent on Sunday, 07 March 2004) ‘Oh, god! Alain de Botton! Do you know how rich his family is?! His dad owned Switzerland!!” This, or something very similar, is what almost… Read More »The Botton Line

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