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Tag Archives: Thomas Merton
Editing Merton
The Jesuit magazine America has posted a brief retrospective article describing Robert Giroux’s early professional coup with his 1948 publication of Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain. This is written by James T Keane. Evelyn Waugh played a part in the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Elected Silence, Robert Giroux, Thomas Merton
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Roundup: “The Death of a Modern Churchman”
–A literary website that encourages new writers (Culturedvultures.com) has posted a list of the 10 most absurd deaths in classic fiction. Among those selected is the death of Mr Prendergast in Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall: 8. DEATH BY SAW AND … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Discussions, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged CulturedVultures.com, Gary Wills, Harpers Magazine, Joseph Pearce, PlayerFM, Thomas Merton
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Mitford and Merton and Waugh
—The London Magazine has published on its website a copy of Evelyn Waugh’s 1960 review of Nancy Mitford’s last novel Don’t Tell Alfred: While looking through our archive recently we came across this review by Evelyn Waugh of Nancy Mitford’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Mary Gordon, Nancy Mitford, The London Magazine, Thomas Merton
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Weekend Roundup: Waugh in the Book Reviews
The Daily Telegraph reviews a book by Julie Summers entitled Our Uninvited Guests about the wartime use of British country houses to shelter evacuated refugees from the bombed out cities or provide military bases. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged America, Bob Dylan, Daily Telegraph, Margaret Millar, Mark Twain, Ross McDonald, Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh: Letter Writing, Divorce Reform, and Wadham College
The nondenominational religious journal First Things has an article about what is seen as the dying art of letter writing. This is written by R E Colombini and entitled “So Long, Age of Letters”. He uses as a case study … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged First Things, Law and Literature, Mary Francis Coady, Maurice Bowra, Robin Esser, The Times, Thomas Merton
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Waugh Quotes in Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal publishes a column called “Notable & Quotable” that features quotations worth further contemplation. The latest issue contains a quote from a letter Waugh sent to Thomas Merton in August 1948 advising him on how to improve … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh’s Advice on Writing
Terry Teachout, drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and critic-at-large of Commentary, has posted on his artsblog a quote from Waugh on the practice of writing: Never send off any piece of writing the moment it is finished. Put it … Continue reading
Publication of Book on Waugh and Merton Announced
A book by Canadian author and educator Mary Frances Coady on the friendship of Evelyn Waugh and U.S. theologian Thomas Merton has been announced. Entitled Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain, it will … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism
Tagged Mary Frances Coady, Thomas Merton
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