For two weeks starting tomorrow, Hyatt's new Andaz Liverpool Street in London will host the hotel world's first "Reader in Residence."
Writer Damian Barr, 31, will read to guests or talk literature with them. "Most people haven't been read to since they were children, and they don't bring a lot of books to hotels," he says.
Andaz is a cheeky, cutting-edge hotel chain, but the idea came from Barr, a freelance journalist and former resident writer at London's Royal College of Art. The service is free, and no books are off-limits — even racy ones.
He won't serve as a "literary callboy," he says.
Barr is so excited by the prospect of his new job that he plans to remain available by phone to hotel guests after his stay for "bibliotherapy." Many people are "intimidated" by choosing books, by what they think they "should" be reading, he says.
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