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Tag Archives: Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh Studies 52.1 (Spring 2021)
The latest issue of the Evelyn Waugh Studies has been published and distributed to members. This is issue No. 52.1 (Spring 2021). The contents and opening paragraphs are as follows: ARTICLES Evelyn Waugh: A Housemasterās Report Jeremy Tomlinson Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Lancing
Tagged Graham Greene, Jeremy Tomlinson
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May Day Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has a preview of the upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. See previous post: THE Mitford sisters would doubtless approve. Emily Mortimer, the daughter of the novelist John Mortimer [credited with screenplay for … Continue reading
Late Winter Roundup
–The Daily Mail has posted some excerpts from the new and unexpurgated edition of the diaries of Chips Channon. Two of these new entries involve comments of Channon about Evelyn Waugh: Evelyn Waugh – Sunday, December 16, 1934 Lunch was … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Chips Channon, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, FarOut, FlashBak.com, Graham Greene, Guardian, Joseph Pearce, Nicola Pagett, Plotlines., TLS, Tom Wolfe
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New Biography of Graham Greene
A new biography of Graham Greene has been published. The UK edition is entitled Russian Roulette and is written by Richard GreeneĀ (no relation but editor of a collection of Graham’s letters). The book is reviewed in the Sunday Times by … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Diaries, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, Graham Greene, Richard Greene, Sunday Times
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Graham Greene and Waugh Discuss Powell Novel
In theĀ latest installment of imaginary encounters among Evelyn Waugh and his Oxford friends at the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival, Duncan McLaren has Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh discuss Anthony Powell’s 1971 novel Books Do Furnish a Room. This was the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals
Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Graham Greene
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Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
In Duncan McLaren’s latest series of articles, Evelyn Waugh’s friends from Oxford are collecting at the Brideshead Festival. The last of these, by my count based on Duncan’s own projections, is Graham Greene. The first installment of the Greene episode … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Humo(u)r
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Graham Greene, Titus Groan
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Waugh Transformed
Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph has written an article entitled “How the Second World War transformed British literature”. The subject is a good bit more narrow than the title suggests. In fact, he considers primarily how WWII transformed the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Graham Greene, Simon Heffer
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Mexico Revisited: Waugh, Greene and Theroux
Travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux recently published a travel book about an automobile trip to Mexico. This is entitled On the Plain of SnakesĀ and is reviewed in the digital academic magazine PublicBooks.org by Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, professor of Latin American … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Graham Greene, Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, Mexico, Paul Theroux, PublicBooks.org
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Waugh’s Collage
In a recent article in the Indian paper National Herald, reporter Mrinal Pande refers to a collage created by Evelyn Waugh in 1935 which is mentioned without citation in the writings of Graham Greene. This is in an article entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Letters, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged collage, Graham Greene, Mrinal Pande, National Herald (India)
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Fleabag and Julia Flyte
The final episode of Fleabag’s second TV series was broadcast yesterday on BBC. The series has occasioned more than the usual amount of comment in the press. See earlier post. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Serena Davies has high praise … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Fleabag, Graham Greene, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Serena Davies
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