Promiscuous Meets Uncommon

The Uncommon Reader: a novella by Alan Bennett. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007.I stumbled on this slim (120 pages) volume at the public library the day after I got back home. I was in the mood for something less engulfing than Rabih Alameddine’s ocean of story The Hakawati, which I’d just finished, and I knew that Bennett was a fine writer. Writing Home, a collection of his journalism