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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Waugh and Wales and Fashion
A recent article in the TLS entitled “Do the Welsh Just Sing?” by Samuel Graydon opens with a quote from Decline and Fall: “The Welsh . . . are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Alice Vincent, Charles James, Daily Telegraph, Samuel Graydon, TLS, Welsh literature, Wikipedia
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Tom Wolfe Alters Waugh
Novelist Tom Wolfe has written a detailed obituary of painter and photographer Marie Cosindas for New York magazine. In this, he explains that Cosindas is best known for being the first photographer to realize the potentials of Polaroid color film. She studied under … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Marie Cosindas, Marseilles, New York Magazine, Tom Wolfe
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Sports Day Revival
After falling out of favor, at least at the more progressive public schools, competitive sports are having a revival. According to Jane Shilling, writing in the Daily Telegraph, that has also created a renewed interest in sports days. For some, … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jane Shilling, Sports Days
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Waugh on Father’s Day
On the occasion of Father’s Day, in the San Diego Reader, a free distribution weekly newspaper, columnist Matthew Lickona has picked through his previous articles for those relating to fatherhood. This one from 1997 cites one of Waugh’s more neglected writings: …In … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Work Suspended
Tagged Diario de Cadiz, Father's Day, San Diego Reader
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Waugh and the Honours List
Twice a year (on the Queen’s Birthday and New Years) the London papers can be expected to drag out their list of those who in the past have rejected honours offered them just as the papers announce the latest list of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, CBE, Graham Greene, honours, Huffington Post, Maurice Bowra, Nancy Mitford, The Mirror
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Brideshead is a Picnic, but not Always
The Field magazine has an article about the traditional British picnic and urges its revival. After describing literary picnics in The Wind and the Willows and Emma, the article decides there are two basic types: … it would be appalling … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged family interventions, Joseph Sciambra, picnics, The Field magazine
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Waugh Conference at Gerald Brenan House in Malaga
The Gerald Brenan House in Malaga, Spain, has announced a one-day conference on Evelyn Waugh to take place a week from today on Friday 23 June. According to the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia, the conference will start with a showing of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Gerald Brenan House, La Vanguardia, Malaga
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Waugh in Albania
Literary journalist and author David Pryce-Jones has written a “Letter from Albania: The Twilight of Zog” that appears in the current issue of The New Criterion. He reports on his attendance at a conference about the legacy of Communism in Albania … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged David Pryce-Jones, Joseph Kanon, New York Times, The New Criterion, The Oldie
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Betjeman Interview on BBC
BBC Four has rebroadcast a TV interview of Waugh’s friend and contemporary, John Betjeman, by Michael Parkinson. The original broadcast was in November 1977, and it was Betjeman’s third and final appearance in a Parkinson interview. According to Parkinson, Betjeman was the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Bevis Hillier, John Betjeman, Michael Parkinson
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Ryder, the Father Figure
A literary weblog called BookerTalk has posted an article naming the 10 most loved or unloved fathers in literature. This is in observance of Father’s Day this weekend. One of those named in the unloved category is the father of Charles Ryder … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Andre Balazs, BookerTalk, Father's Day, Tatler, Viscount de Vesci
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