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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
MLK Weekend Roundup
–The independent book publisher Sutherland House has posted a brief article entitled “Why Waugh Drank”. This is by Kenneth Whyte and begins with a quote from Waugh’s diary (8 Dec 1924, pp. 189-90) about a drink-fueled Oxford day spent in … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Edmund Campion, Letters
Tagged Letters Live, Spectator, Sutherland House, YouTube
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Roundup: Podcast, Public Domain and Plas Dulas
–The London Review of Books has announced its annual program of monthly literary podcasts for the coming year. This is called Close Readings. One of these wil focus on satire and will discuss, inter alia, Evelyn Waugh’s early novel A … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Podcast, Wales
Tagged London Review of Books, NorthWales Live, Standard Ebooks
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New Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Posted
A new issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies, the Society’s journal, has been posted. This is vol 54.2 (Autumn 2023). Here is the summary by the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson: I write to provide you with Evelyn Waugh Studies 54.2 which I can … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh Studies
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New Years Roundup
–The website LibraryThing.com has posted a review of the Folio Society editions of Black Mischief of which there have been three. Here’s the text: [Black Mischief] is a quite politically incorrect farce set in 1930 in the mythical country of … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Internet, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Folio Society, LibraryThing.com, Saltburn, The Guardian, The Times
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Christmas 2023 Roundup
–An article posted by the Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain has announced that beginning in January 2024, some books written by Evelyn Waugh will be out of copyright protection in the United States. Here’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Duke University, Letters of Note, Literary Review
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Society’s Secretary Interviewed on Literary Website
The literary and entertainment website Book and Film Globe earlier this week interviewed the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson. The interview entitled “Waugh in Our Time” is posted today. Here’s the introduction by interviewer Michael Washburn: Nearly six decades after his … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh Society, Interviews
Tagged Book and Film Globe, Jamie Collinson
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Pre-Christmas Roundup
–The British Film Institute (BFI) has posted a copy of Evelyn Waugh’s 1924 silent film production The Scarlet Woman. I think the film was more a creation of Waugh’s Oxford friend Terrence Greenidge than Waugh himself, although Waugh seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Internet, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged BFI, CapX, Roderic O'Connor, The Scarlet Woman, The Spectator, The Times
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Roundup: Kitsch, Photos and a War
–Last week, a group of Waugh scholars convened by Zoom.com to listen to and discuss a talk by Professor Taichi Koyama on the subject Waugh and Kitsch. Here’s a description of Prof. Koyama’s presentation: Evelyn Waugh’s novels, from the earlier … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Photographs, Vile Bodies
Tagged London Review of Books, National Portrait Gallery, Professor Taichi Koyama, Washington Post, Yevonde
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Advent Roundup
–The religious website Thinking Faith has posted an essay by Gerard Kilroy, who is, inter alia, co-editor of the recently published volume of Edmund Campion in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. In this essay, Kilroy explains in some detail the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Edmund Campion, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Catholic Insight, Financial Review (Australia), New York Review of Books, The Times, Thinking Faith
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–James Marriott writing in The Times offers some thoughts on the new film Saltburn (mentioned in several previous posts). Here’s an excerpt: …With the complacency characteristic of her class, Fennell [writer/director of film] never pauses to reflect that a person … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Christie's, The Herald (Scotland), The Nation, The Oldie, The Times
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