Tag Archives: Los Angeles Review of Books

Easter Roundup

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Jesuit journal America has an article by senior editor James T Keane entitled “The sometimes-savage perfection of Catholic parody.” In looking back over previous articles on this theme, he came up with one in 1958 where its author Joel … Continue reading →

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Boxing Day Roundup

Posted on December 27, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

–Penguin have announced the issuance of a new edition of Waugh’s first book Rossetti: His Life and Work. This will be in the Penguin Modern Classics series and will be issued in the UK in April 2022. It will be … Continue reading →

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Perry Mason Meets The Loved One

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Another review of the recent Perry Mason TV series also implicates Waugh.  (See previ0us post.) This is not so much for his admiration of Erle Stanley Gardner but for his sharing with Gardner an interest in “distinctly Los Angelean” themes. … Continue reading →

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Midwinter Roundup

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–One of our readers Bruce Gaston contributed this item: Early every morning on BBC Radio 4 there is a short item called “Tweet  of the Day”, which is actually about birdsong. Today’s bird was the  Great Crested Grebe. The continuity … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Hollywood Novel

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A feature length article in this week’s Los Angeles Review of Books is entitled “In Search of the Great Hollywood Novel.” This is by Graham Daseler who begins by wondering why there is no genre for Washington novels but then … Continue reading →

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Waugh in the LARB

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Los Angeles Review of Books contains references to Waugh in two of this months’ issues. The first is in a review of a book entitled Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David Ulin, a transplanted New Yorker, … Continue reading →

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