For two weeks starting Monday, 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. “I always pack a selection, because you get tired of being in the CNN world.”