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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
University of Leicester Posts PR about Launch of Complete Works
The University of Leicester which is hosting the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project has issued a detailed Press Release about the publication of the first five volumes. The launch of the project is scheduled for later this week. Much … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Letters
Tagged University of Leicester
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Waugh and the Small, Cornered Creature
Private Eye (8-21 September) cites Waugh in its review (“Doesnae land”) of James Kelman’s collected stories That Was a Shiver. This comes after reminding readers that in the early 1990s Kelman was the “hippest cat on the block.” One critic … Continue reading
Alastair Graham and Steven Runciman (more)
In a recent post we mentioned a weblog article that described the friendship or affair between Waugh’s Oxford friend Alastair Graham and historian Steven Runciman. The book cited in that article (Outlandish Knight by Minoo Dinwash) sheds additional light on this matter and … Continue reading
Vile Politics
Heather Wilhelm writing in National Review has noticed that several commentators have been making the analogy between present national politics and professional wrestling. You can best explain what’s happening by remembering that, like a professional wrestler (who isn’t so much … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Heather Wilhelm, National Review, professional wrestling
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Ann Pasternak Slater to Join Hertford College Event
It has been announced that Waugh scholar Ann Pasternak Slater, editor of Waugh’s short stories and author of the recent study Evelyn Waugh (Writers and their Work) will join Alexander Waugh and Barbara Cooke at the previously announced lecture at Hertford … Continue reading
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George Smiley and Basil Seal
The Evening Standard has reviewed John Le Carre’s latest novel A Legacy of Spies in which he revives his old characters from the George Smiley novels. The reviewer David Sexton has this observation about the pitfalls of this practice: Often it … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Basil Seal Rides Again, Discussions, Labels, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, John le Carre, New York University, Paula Byrne, Sir Arthur Evans, The Oldie
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Waughs and the Bat Colony
Late last month in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we posted a message about the Waugh Drive Bridge in Houston and its bat colony. Patrick Kurp, who maintains a weblog called “Anecdotal Evidence” and lives in Houston, has provided the … Continue reading
Danish Journal Publishes Waugh Article
The Danish cultural journal Critique has published for the first time the full version of an essay on Waugh’s life and work written in 2009. This is entitled “Evelyn Waughs korstog mod moderniteten” (“Evelyn Waugh’s Crusade Against Modernity”) and is summarized … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Robbery Under Law, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Crtique, Soren Besenbacher
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Walking Tour of Mayfair’s Bright Young Things
Footprints of London has announced a conducted walk through Mayfair which will highlight locations associated with the Bright-Young-Things era. The tour is scheduled for Saturday, 28 October, 1500-1700pm. Here’s a description: A literary romp round Mayfair; the playground of the Bright … Continue reading
Posted in Events, London
Tagged Bright Young Things, Footprints of London, Jen Pedler, Mayfair
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Alastair Graham, Steven Runciman and More Misfits
A blogger named John (who lives in the Southern US) posted on his weblog Notes from a Common-place Book a report of his recent trip to England. This posting is dated 4 September 2017. He sought out gravesites of writers he considered “misfits” … Continue reading
