One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: "Humorous, surprising, disarmingly human" essays and comic pieces from one of England's national treasures (The Washington Post Book World).A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the YearA Lambda Literary Award finalistBringing 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