Dumbo Feather Kindle interviews feature exclusive photography and full-length conversations. Dumbo Feather is a magazine about extraordinary ideas and the people behind them. Our interviews are not just quick PR grabs, they are genuine, in-depth conversation with some of the world's greatest thinkers and achievers. Amid the cultural wreckage of a city that tore itself apart not months before, Dumbo Feather editor Patrick Pittman’s search for a smile takes him to a shopfront in Bloomsbury, London. The School of Life, the sign says. Ideas to live by, it says. A place of play and whimsy and big talk, it is accessible, warm, stylish, and serious. Kind of like the man behind it.Alain de Botton knows that living is hard. That the world is a place of urgent protest, war, famine and disease. But against that backdrop, questions of the self are critical. What is a functioning society, after all, without happiness? Without dignity? And, for that matter, without love?In this extended 8,000 word interview, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton talks of his ideas on life, love, faith, work and family. The interview originally appeared in shorter form in Issue 30 of Dumbo Feather.
