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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh Among Top Sellers on AbeBooks
The Victoria, British Columbia, paper Times Colonist has published an interview of Richard Davies, a spokesman for the internet bookseller AbeBooks (which I believe originally was called ABE, standing for “Advanced Book Exchange”, but now has become a word unto itself). The company, now … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Bibliophilia, Interviews
Tagged AbeBooks, Richard Davies, Times Colonist
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Philip Eade Interviewed by National Review
An audio interview of Waugh’s biographer Philip Eade by National Review’s John J. Miller has been posted on the internet in Miller’s “Bookmonger” series. This may be found on the website Riccochet. It lasts about 10 minutes and begins with Miller asking … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged John J Miller, National Review, Philip Eade, Riccochet, William F Buckley Jr
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Biography of Robert Laycock Published
A biography of Robert Laycock, Evelyn Waugh’s commanding officer in WWII, has been published in the UK. This is The Commando General: The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock by Richard Mead. The book is featured on a British military website (Army … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Army Rumor Service, Marcellus Cimber II, Robert Laycock
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Shades of Black Mischief
A recent “Wild Life” column by Aidan Hartley in the Spectator describes how the new British High Commissioner to Kenya has snubbed the few white farmers who remain in that country: I realised I had fallen from grace when we … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers
Tagged Aidan Hartley, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Kenya, Spectator
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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
