Novelist Alain de Botton created a literary stir in 1997 with the release of his tongue-in-cheek philosophical musings in “How Proust Can Change Your Life.” Readers praised his invention of “a new genre: part self-help, part ethics primer, and part confessional.” Now de Botton is back as host of a TV show in which guests are invited to share their personal problems – from broken hearts to road rage. Distilling 2,400 years of Western thought into an hour of advice, de Botton “seeks to show that Epicurus, Montaigne, and Schopenhauer have many sensible things to say to an anxious modern audience.” Good luck! – The Observer (UK)