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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Rachel Cusk Interviewed in New York Magazine
New York Magazine has today posted an interview of novelist Rachel Cusk. The interview is by Heidi Julavits and opens with this brief summary of Cusk’s work: Cusk is the author of three memoirs and nine novels, most recently Transit, which … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Heidi Julavits, New York Magazine, Rachel Cusk
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Waugh in Reviews
The Prufrock column in this week’s Weekly Standard magazine contains this reference to the new book Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons, with a link to a review of the book: The Catholic priest Ronald Knox made a deep … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Ben Judah, Financial Times, Greg Morrison, London Review of Books, Rosemary Hill, Sreven Runciman, University Bookman, Weekly Standard
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Addis Ababa Today
The Guardian in a feature-length article by Jason Burke in its “Cities” series describes the growing unrest in Ethiopia. This has its roots in the country’s land ownership policies under which the government owns all the land and allows development only … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Guardian
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Brideshead Lecture Online
Fr Robert Lauder, priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn who teaches literature at St John’s University, has given a lecture on Brideshead Revisited that is now available online. Click here. The lecture is part of a series on the Catholic Novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Lectures, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Fr Robert Lauder, The Catholic Novel
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Waugh in the Papers
There are references to Waugh and his works in several major newspapers. In The Weekend Australian, an article in their opinion section urged Brits, Yanks and Aussies to stop blaming voters they view as irredeemably dim for results such as Brexit, Trump and, in … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Financial Times, Graham Greene, Roy Hattersley, The Irish Times, The Spectator, The Weekend Australian
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Waugh Conference Details Announced
Details have been announced of the Evelyn Waugh conference to be held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California in the spring. Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector will take place on May 5 & 6 (Fri. & Sat.) to … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events
Tagged Huntington Library
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Waugh’s Psychogeographic Experience
In a posting to his weblog The Hollywood Walker, writer Geoff Nicholson compares the travel experiences in Malta of Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Pynchon. This seems to have been suggested to him by Paul Fussell’s 1980 book Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars. … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Labels
Tagged Geoff Nicholson, Malta, Psychogeography, The Hollywood Walker
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Visit to Oslo
A letter from Evelyn Waugh to a Mr Some on the stationery of the Grand Hotel in Oslo is to be sold by Forum Auctions later this month. The letter would have been written in August 1947 while Waugh was on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters
Tagged Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland, Norway
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Rex Mottram and Scott-King Reconsidered
In blogpost on the religious website Patheos, Tod Worner undertakes a review of the career of Rex Mottram and offers the results of his project in this conclusion: As I revisited Brideshead Revisited and the story of Rex Mottram, I … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Patheos, Rex Motrram, Tod Worner
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Death Comes for the Comic Novelist
The interactive website Ranker has set up a listing that describes 13 celebrities who died on the toilet. This seemingly tasteless and pointless compilation by Carly Silver is part of Ranker’s subject category entitled “Celebrity Deaths.” Most of the deaths listed are of historical figures, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
Tagged Dappled Things, Graham Greene, Martin Stannard, Ranker
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