Kate Kellaway
Could Be Useful at Cocktail Parties
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays
By David Mamet
Faber & Faber 432pp £12.99 order from our bookshop
Not far from where I’m writing this (in Islington, North London), David Mamet, in some unspecified year, was walking along in search of a cup of tea. He found one in a café, opposite Islington library. At this point, reading his account and knowing the area, anxiety overtook me: which café? Was he well advised? Was there a café outside Islington library? None that I could remember. But I need not have worried. He was ecstatic:
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