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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Bloggers List Waugh
Waugh and his works have appeared in several recent blogs. In listverse he was named in a list of “10 Pop Culture Moments We Owe To Animals.” That seems unlikely but here it is: Evelyn Waugh’s Suicide Attempt Was Ruined By … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Sightings
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Jellyfish, Weblogs
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BBC Rebroadcasts Brideshead Radio Adaptation
BBC Radio 4 Extra will rebroadcast the 4-episode series of Brideshead Revisited starting tomorrow (Tuesday, 4 October) at 10am. Each episode is 1 hour, and they will be broadcast on successive days at the same time each day until the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, Jeremy Front
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“Death to Picasso”
Columnist, editor of The New Ctiterion and scourge of academic political correctness, Roger Kimball, has cited Waugh in an article in the conservative/libertarian weblog PJ Media. This was in the context of a “PC” debate that arose from recent unrest in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Articles, Letters, Twitter
Tagged Pablo Picasso, PJ Media, political correctness, Roger Kimball, University of Tennessee
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Death in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Magazine has recently republished a 2011 article by Ben Ehrenreich which has “Death in L.A.” forming part of its subtitle. That is not far off the title of the German translation for Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One (Tod in Hollywood). Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ben Ehrenreich, Forest Lawn, Jessica Mitford, Los Angeles Magazine
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Waugh and the McCarthyites
A blogger posting on a community news weblog for West Berkshire has been inspired by reading The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh to pronounce her assessment of Waugh’s life and work (Penny Post, 29 Sept-9 Oct). After declaring Waugh a … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Letters
Tagged Joseph McCarthy, Penny Post, Spectator, William F Buckley Jr
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Waugh Character Models Surface in Blogs
Two of Waugh’s character models have surfaced in recent blogs. These are Brenda Dean Paul and Kate Meyrick. Dean Paul may have contributed to any number of characters in Vile Bodies. She was perhaps the most prominent of the Bright … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, London, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brenda Dean Paul, Bright Young People, Gordon Meyrick, Kate Meyrick, The 43
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Quick Delivery of A Little Order
A blogger living in London (blogging as Dickon Edwards) has posted an experience of brick and mortar booksellers becoming more competitive with their online counterparts: There are many reasons to buy books from bookshops rather than Amazon, but one is … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, London, The Holy Places, When the Going Was Good
Tagged A Little Order, Dickon Edwards, Donat Gallagher
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Estate of Peter Waugh to be Auctioned
An auction house in the West of England has announced the sale of artworks from the estate of the late Peter Waugh (1938-2014). Peter was the third child of Alec Waugh with his second wife Joan Chirnside. Peter’s life was profiled … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Items for Sale, Waugh Family, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Busby's Auctioneers, Guardian, Peter Waugh
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Waugh, Catch-22 and the Demented Governess
Many of us will have read Waugh’s 1961 letter to Nina Bourne, who worked for US publisher Simon & Schuster. In the letter, Waugh politely and very humorously declines to give them a blurb promoting their new book Catch-22, the first novel … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters, World War II
Tagged Catch-22, Nina Bourne, Robert Gottlieb
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