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Author Archives: Antony F. P. Vickery
Lancing College remembers Brideshead Revisited
A report by Sussex Living magazine on the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College.
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Fiction, Lancing, Lectures, Television
Tagged Anthony Andrews, Derek Granger
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“Isn’t it true that the only liquid Americans drink is ice water?”
Dave Wood, of the (Wisconsin) River Falls Journal, considers Evelyn Waugh and recalls a story told him by the Roman Catholic American author and sometime Waugh houseguest J. F. Powers.
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Sunset Boulevard’s debt to The Loved One
Thanks to Steve Sailer for drawing to our attention his article in Taki’s Magazine about how much Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard is derived from Waugh’s The Loved One, which Wilder had tried to get the movie studio … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Fiction, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Billy Wilder, Steve Sailer, Sunset Boulevard, Taki's Magazine
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Lancing College 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture announced
Lancing College, the school which Evelyn Waugh attended between 1917 and 1921, has announced that the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture will be given on April 18th by Anthony Andrews, the actor who played Sebastian Flyte in the celebrated Granada Television adaptation … Continue reading
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BBC Radio 4 discussion of Decline and Fall
On Feb. 21, on the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, David Bradshaw (Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford), John Bowen (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York)Â and Ann Pasternak Slater (Senior Research Fellow at … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Discussions, Fiction, Radio Programs
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, BBC, David Bradshaw, In Our Time, John Bowen, Melvyn Bragg, Radio 4
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Transcript of Lancing College 2012 Evelyn Waugh Lecture now online
The fourth (2012)Â annual Lancing College Evelyn Waugh Lecture was given on April 19th, 2012 by Reverend Professor Richard Griffiths, who discussed Waugh’s Lancing diaries and the lessons that can be learned from them in relation to his other written works. … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh’s Hampstead days
The Ham(pstead) & High(gate) website features a Jan. 12th article by Adam Sonin on Evelyn Waugh’s Hampstead days.
New Evelyn Waugh paperback, hardback, e-book, and audiobook editions published by Little, Brown & Hachette
On December 11, Little, Brown reissued the works of fiction of Evelyn Waugh in both paperback, hardback, and e-book formats (e-book link is to Amazon Kindle editions). Waugh’s books were last reissued by Little, Brown in 1999. Hachette Audio is … Continue reading
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Anthony Powell Society 2013 conference announcement and call for papers
The Anthony Powell Society is soliciting papers for its 7th Biennial Conference. The subject of the conference is “Anthony Powell in the ’20s and ’30s.” The conference will be held at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England from 27 to 29 … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Powell Society, conferences, litsoc solidarity
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2012 Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest deadline approaching
The submission deadline is approaching for the 8th Annual (2012) Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest, sponsored by the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies and judged by its editorial board. The winning essay will receive a prize of $250 and will … Continue reading
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