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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Harry Potter, Brideshead Revisited and Jeremy Corbin
The London papers are full of comments this week marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. In The Spectator, associate editor Toby Young looks at the political and cultural influences that contributed to J … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Harry Potter, J K Rowling, Labour Party, The Spectator, Toby Young
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Brexit and Lord Glasgow’s Castle
The Economist in this week’s “Bagehot” column opens with a reference to a wartime letter Evelyn Waugh wrote to his wife, using it as a metaphor for Britain’s current political malaise: WRITING to his wife in May 1942, Evelyn Waugh recounted … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Brexit, Lord Glasgow, The Economist
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Waugh Biographies on Summer Reading List
George Weigel writing in Catholic World Report has included two biographies of Evelyn Waugh on his list of books recommended for summer reading: Of the making of Wavian biographies there seems to be no end, but I thoroughly enjoyed Philip … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic World Report, Douglas Patey, George Weigel, Philip Eade
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Screen Credit Blues
The Irish Times has a story by Donald Clarke about the dissatisfaction of screen writer Neil Jordan with the final versions of the TV series Riviera episodes now running on Sky TV. According to the IT story, the final versions reflect … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged Irish Times, John Mortimer, Neil Jordan, Riviera, Turner Classic Movies
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Commonweal Marks J F Powers Centenary
The Roman Catholic literary magazine Commonweal has marked the centenary of novelist J F Powers birth with an article on Powers’ career entitled “His Bleak Materials” by biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers. The article begins with Meyers’ memoir of a 1981 … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Commonweal, J F Powers, Jeffrey Meyers
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Retour à l’europe moderne
Waugh’s French publisher Robert Laffont has issued a new printing of the French translation of Brideshead Revisited (Retour à Brideshead). This is a paperback as was the previous version but has a new cover with new dimensions and pagination in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged classics, Dallas Morning News, modern world, Robert Laffont, summer reading, translations (French)
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Two Openings and a Debut
A Waugh quote opens an article in the South China Morning Post about Djibouti: Not that long ago, Djibouti was known for little more than French legionnaires, atrocious heat and being at the other end of a railway line to … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Hampstead, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Djibouti, Elsa Lanchester, Risk.net, Running Past, SCMP, The Scarlet Woman
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Decline and Fall to be Shown in Overseas Markets
BBC First has announced that it will screen its recent adaptation of Decline and Fall in several overseas markets beginning in August. The announcement appears in online TV listing service TVTonite. BBC First is a TV subscription service which operates in markets … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Television
Tagged BBC First
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Waugh and Brit Grift
The online newspaper The Daily Beast (which owes its name to a fictional newspaper in Scoop) recently ran a story by James Kirchick entitled “The Brit Grifters and the Designated American Suckers.” This suggests a history of British residents whose careers have hit a wall in their … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged grifters, James Kirchick, The Daily Beast
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