Keeping On Keeping On
eBook - ePub

Keeping On Keeping On

  1. 737 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Keeping On Keeping On

About this book

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: "Humorous, surprising, disarmingly human" essays and comic pieces from one of England's national treasures (T he Washington Post Book World).
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year
A Lambda Literary Award finalist
Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best-known literary figures, Keeping On Keeping On contains Tony Award–winning playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and actor Alan Bennett's diaries from 2005 to 2015—with everything from his much celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews—reflecting on a decade that saw four major theater premieres and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. This entertaining chronicle of a life in letters comes from a "singular voice [with] a highly tuned ironic wit—his special brand of gentleness laced with arsenic" ( The New York Times Book Review).
"Part of the pleasure of his diaries is the sense that [Bennett] tells them things he would never say out loud." — The New York Review of Books
"Consistently funny and touching." — The Telegraph

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Introduction
  5. The Diaries 2005–2015
  6. Baffled at a Bookcase
  7. Fair Play
  8. The History Boys, Film Diary
  9. Introductions to:
  10. Foreword to The Coder Special Archive
  11. Art and Yorkshire
  12. Nights at the Opera
  13. Bruce McFarlane 1903–1966
  14. John Schlesinger 1926–2003
  15. The National Theatre at Fifty
  16. On Nicholas Hytner
  17. Introduction to Denmark Hill and The Hand of God
  18. Denmark Hill
  19. The Hand of God
  20. Epilogue
  21. Photographs
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Notes
  24. Index
  25. Text Permissions
  26. Also by Alan Bennett
  27. A Note About the Author
  28. Newsletter Sign-up
  29. Contents
  30. Copyright