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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Jonathan Coe, Evelyn Waugh and P G Wodehouse
An interview of novelist Jonathan Coe for Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines has been posted on the internet. The interview, published as “Laughing Out Loud with Jonathan Coe”, was conducted in October 2015 and deals with the comic content of Coe’s fiction. He is best … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, Jonathan Coe
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Waugh and the Rolling Stones
In the Washington Free Beacon, columnist Matthew Walter reviews the Rolling Stones’ latest album Blue and Lonesome. The review is not favorable. After comparing the new album to the earlier works of the Stones and others, he gets around to … Continue reading
Waugh Cited in Book on Alcohol in Literature
The Guardian has published an essay which appears to be based on a book about the role played by alcohol in 20th Century history. This is by Henry Jeffreys and is entitled Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass.” See earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Alcohol in Literature, Henry Jeffreys, Wine Connoisseurship
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Weekly Standard Remembers Waugh
The latest issue of Weekly Standard carries an article memorializing Waugh in this 50th anniversary year of his death. This is by Algis Valiunas who is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The essay begins with the familiar characterization … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Algis Valiunas, Weekly Standard
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Waugh Scholar Wins Award for New Novel
Waugh scholar, author and professor of English Philology at the University of La Rioja in Spain, Carlos Villar Flor, has won an award for a new novel, his fifth. According to the Spanish newspaper La Rioja, Villar Flor: … has just … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, La Rioja (newspaper), University of La Rioja
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Tatler’s List of Snobs
The Tatler magazine has published a list of the great snobs of history. This is written by Sophia Money-Coutts and author-critic D J Taylor. Taylor has recently written a book on this subject (The New Book of Snobs) and the … Continue reading
A. A. Gill (1954-2016), R.I.P.
The journalist and humorist A A Gill has died at the age of 62, the same relatively young age at which Evelyn Waugh died. He spent most of his career writing for the Sunday Times but also wrote a memoir … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged A A Gill, Australian Financial Review, Daily Telegraph
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Evelyn Waugh and “The Waste Land”
The Guardian has named T S Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as its latest selection in its 100 best non-fiction books. See earlier post. Once again Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in connection with the selection: The Great War was a mass slaughter. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Guardian, T S Eliot, The Waste Land. Robert McCrum
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Waugh in the News (more)
The author (Pedro Mexia) of the Portuguese language article about Evelyn Waugh in the weekly Lisbon newspaper Expresso has kindly sent us a complete copy of the article. See earlier post for the opening paragraph. Here is an edited Google translation of … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Expresso, Frances Donaldson, Ian Littlewood, Pedro Mexia
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British Council Promotes Waugh in Diversity Week
The British Council in India is celebrating diversity week and is promoting the works of British writers from the LGBT community who it deems to represent diverse views. Evelyn Waugh is the first writer mentioned: Waugh explored his homosexuality both … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged British Council, Diversity Week, LGBT Community
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