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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Haphazard Dust-bins
Spanish novelist Imma Monsó has written an article inspired by the publication in Spanish of US novelist James Salter’s The Art of Fiction. Salter’s book is based on a series of 2014 lectures he gave at the University of Virginia … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A Little Order, Daily Mail, Imma Monso, James Salter, La Vanguardia
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Roundup: Vile Media
The magazine GQ India had an article about Asian-based novels satirizing Asian-based rich people. This opens with a reference to one of Waugh’s novels: It is an unassailable truth that where there is money, a thinly veiled roman-à-clef documenting the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Herald, Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, GQ India, Guardian, New Statesman, University of Regina
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Latest EW Studies Features New Views of Brideshead
The latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been published (Number 48.3, Winter 2017). The lead article, Brideshead Rearranged: Charm, Grace, and Waugh’s Building of Worlds, by Grazie Sophia Christie, is the winner of the 2017 John … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Undergraduate Essay Contest, Work Suspended
Tagged Anthony Powell, David Fensome, Hilary Spurling
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Waugh Novels in a New “Trilogy”
In a paper posted on the website culturedvultures.com (described as “a community dedicated to helping writers of all experiences and backgrounds to have their work seen and read”), Huw Saunders proposes a new “trilogy” of books about Africa. Two of the books … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Tagged Africa, Frederick Forsyth, Huw Saunders, The Dogs of War
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TV Series Previewed: Like Trainspotting Written by Evelyn Waugh
The Sunday Times has an interview of Benedict Cumberbatch and a preview of his new Patrick Melrose TV series. Cumberbatch both produced the series and plays the leading role. The books were adapted for TV by David Nicholls who previously … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Edward St. Aubyn, Emily Temple, Literary Hub, Patrick Melrose Novels, Stuff.co.nz, World Book Day
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U and Non-U in TLS
The U and Non-U debate about social class distinctions that raged (if that’s the correct word) in the 1950s has resurfaced in the TLS. This appears in its N.B. column that is written by J. C. (believed to be James … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Discussions, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged James Campbell, Nancy Mitford, TLS, U and Non-U
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From Anatolia to Catalonia
A Turkish website which looks like a promotional books blog (okuryazar.tv) has posted a brief introduction and excerpt from the Turkish translation of A Handful of Dust (in Turkish Bir Avuç Toz). After a plot summary, the introduction continues: A … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Arabalears, Marina P de Cabo, Turkish translation
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Roundup: Waugh in Publishing
Amazon is offering a new book by London-based playwright and singer-songwriter Roy Smiles. This is entitled Waugh in Winter and is the text of a play which is built around Waugh’s persona. According to the book description: Waugh in Winter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Chicago Review Press, Dans le manoir aux livres, Editions Robert Laffont, Elsa Lanchester, Irish Times, Roy Smiles, The Scarlet Woman, Town and Country
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Long-Missing Waugh Letter for Sale
Peter Harrington Booksellers are offering the original of a 24 January 1958 letter from Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford. The letter was published in full in the Christopher Sykes biography (Penguin, p. 525) but had gone missing when Charlotte Mosley … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Charlotte Mosley, Christopher Sykes, Nancy Mitford, Peter Harrington Booksellers
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Brexit, Flags and Travesties
Patrick Kidd in today’s issue of The Times devotes his “Political Sketch” column to the Commonwealth Conference convened this week in London. He opens and closes with references to an Evelyn Waugh novel: Put out more flags. Evelyn Waugh took … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, London, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Brexit, Commonwealth, Cynthia Zarin, Justin Trudeau, Patrick Kidd, The New Yorker, The Times, Tom Stoppard
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