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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Updates: Brideshead Tonite
The Daily Telegraph offers this rather downbeat description in its TV schedules of the 2008 Brideshead Revisited film adaptation: In the light of the 1981 TV version of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, you do have to admire the chutzpah of anyone else giving … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, El Pais, The Oldie
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Five Books (more)
Reader Dave Lull has done some additional research in the archives of the Five Books interviews and came up with a July 2012 interview with Waugh biographer Selina Hastings. See previous post. She was asked about books relating to Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Interviews
Tagged Five Books, Selina Hastings, Timothy Garton Ash
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Philip Roth (1933-2018)
The death was announced earlier this week of the American novelist Philip Roth. Like Tom Wolfe, who died the preceding week, much of his early work was written in the comic, satirical tradition of Evelyn Waugh. So far, however, no … Continue reading
Roundup: Picture This
A remarkable photo of Evelyn Waugh has been posted on the men’s clothing website Voxsartoria. This is from 1950, although the name of the photographer is not given. What is most noticeable about the photo is the lighting on the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Newspapers, Photographs, Robbery Under Law, Waugh Family
Tagged alamy.com, BBC, Five Books, Jacob Rees-Mogg, The New European, Voxsartoria
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Terence Greenidge and Degenerate Oxford?
Peter Harrington Booksellers in London are listing a copy of the 1930 book by Terence Greenidge entitled Degenerate Oxford? A Critical Study of Modern University Life. He is also credited with several later books in his Wikipedia entry, including fiction, poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Items for Sale, Oxford
Tagged Peter Harrington Booksellers, Terence Greenidge, The Scarlet Woman
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Scoop X 3
BBC News opens a report on whether there will be a second independence referendum in Scotland with a reference to Waugh’s novel Scoop. The report is filed by the BBC’s Scotland political editor Brian Taylor: So is that it, then? … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop, Television
Tagged BBC, Mark Adams, Powells Books, Scotland, Stylist.co.uk
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Brideshead at the Mille Miglia
Columnist and humorist writing as Don Alphonso reports in the weblog of the German paper Der Welt about his visit to this year’s Mille Miglia Storica event in Italy. This is an annual vintage car rally based on an auto … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Der Welt, Don Alphonso, Mille Miglia, Rainer Meyer, vintage car rallies
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Tom Wolfe 1930-2018
American novelist, Tom Wolfe, died earlier this week. He will probably be best remembered for his innovative journalism of the 1960s, 70s and 80s but he also branched into fiction with a satirical novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, in … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Ben Lawrence, Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Die Zeit, Jens Jessen, Tom Wolfe, William Cash
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