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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Eade Reviewed in Bay Area Reporter
This week’s issue of The Bay Area Reporter, voice of the LGBT community in the San Francisco Bay region, has a review of Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh. This is by Brian Bromberger who begins with a quick categorization of Eade’s book: When … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Brian Bromberger, Philip Eade, The Bay Area Reporter
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BL to Publish Collection of Travel Writing
British Library Publishing will issue a collection of travel writing early next year. This will be entitled The Writer Abroad: Literary Travellers from Anne Radcliffe to Evelyn Waugh. The book will be edited by Lucinda Hawksley, biographer, historian and promoter … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Non-fiction
Tagged British Library, Lucinda Hawksley, Travel Writing
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Innovative Study to Include Waugh Chapter
Publication has been announced of an innovative literary study of 28 authors that will include a chapter on Evelyn Waugh. This is entitled The Doubling: Those Influential Writers that Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Interviews
Tagged Diana Sheets, Edward St. Aubyn
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Waugh and Nostalgia
The Washington Post’s theatre critic Peter Marks waxes nostalgic in response to the current period of political turmoil consuming the United States. Most prominently, in a recent column entitled “Nostalgia! Yestalgia!”, he harks back to the “soothing” musical comedies of Rodgers and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged Nostalgia, Peter Marks, Washington Post
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Blue Feet and Smarty Boots
This week’s issue of Standpoint magazine reviews a autobiographical book by artist Nicky Loutit. The book is entitled New Year’s Day is Black. The review, by Jessica Douglas-Home, begins with this reference to the book’s preface, in which Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Cyril Connolly, D.J.Taylor, Janetta Kee, Nicky Loutit, Standpoint
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Review of Helena in Roman Catholic Journal
The Roman Catholic online journal Crisis Magazine, published by the Sophia Institute Press, has posted a retrospective review of Waugh’s 1950 historical novel Helena, possibly his least read work of book-length fiction. The review is entitled “A Catholic Satirist at Work” … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Helena
Tagged Crisis magazine, Michael de Sapio
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Memoir of Brideshead TV Film in Vanity Fair
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the original director of the 1981 Granada TV film production of Brideshead Revisited, has written a memoir of his experience. This is published in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine and is entitled “Inside the Making of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Derek Granger, Granada TV, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Vanity Fair
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Mr and Mrs Chatterbox
Today’s Daily Express carries a story (reproduced in PressReader) about a woman named Doris Delevigne who was one of the few working-class members of the Bright Young People. Born in 1900, she pulled herself up from the lower classes with the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Express, Doris Delevigne, Lord Castlerosse, Lyndsy Spence
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Commonweal Republishes Waugh Story
On the occasion of Evelyn Waugh’s birthday last week, the independent US Roman Catholic magazine Commonweal has republished his 1953 story of the dystopian future, Love Among the Ruins. The story made its first US appearance in Commoneweal’s issue dated 31 July 1953, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Commonweal, George Orwell
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A Week of Waugh
A review of the preceding week’s online press and blogs turns up several references to Evelyn Waugh. The New York Public Library’s blog contains a short article on the occasion of Waugh birthday, recounting the origins of The Loved One: … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Baltimore Sun, Movie Nation, New York Public Library, Observer (NY), Robert Byron, The Guardian
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