Keeping On Keeping On

Alan Bennett

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780374716974
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Notice
• Introduction
• The Diaries 2005–2015
• Baffled at a Bookcase
• Fair Play
• The History Boys, Film Diary
• Introductions to:
• Foreword to The Coder Special Archive
• Art and Yorkshire
• Nights at the Opera
• Bruce McFarlane 1903–1966
• John Schlesinger 1926–2003
• The National Theatre at Fifty
• On Nicholas Hytner
• Introduction to Denmark Hill and The Hand of God
• Denmark Hill
• The Hand of God
• Epilogue
• Photographs
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Index
• Text Permissions
• Also by Alan Bennett
• A Note About the Author
• Newsletter Sign-up
• Contents
• Copyright