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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Driberg’s Wedding
The Daily Express opens its weekend TV review column with a quote from Waugh: WHEN the novelist Evelyn Waugh received an invitation to the wedding of the notorious philandering MP Tom Driberg, he declined to go. “I expect the church will … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Daily Express, Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg
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Alexei Sayle Names Sword of Honour
Comedian and author Alexei Sayle names Waugh’s Sword of Honour as the book that has been most important to him. The selection appears in yesterday’s Glasgow Herald: Name: Alexei Sayle Latest Book: Thatcher Stole My Trousers A Book That Made Me: … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Sword of Honour
Tagged Alexei Sayle, Glasgow Herald
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Waugh Gender Misperception as Good Career Move
The Independent has published a report from its correspondent at the Bath Lterature Festival, Katy Guest. When learning of Time’s recent mistake re Waugh’s gender, Guest wondered if the perception of Waugh as a female writer might be a good career move. Women … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bath Literature Festival, Independent, Katy Guest
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Larry Kramer Lists Waugh Novel
Playwright and AIDS awareness activist Larry Kramer has named Handful of Dust as one of his 10 favorite books. The list is in the New York Times “T” magazine and reflects the 10 books Kramer woud select to take with … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged Larry Kramer. New York Times
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Arcadian Doubts
The latest issue of the magazine of Oriel College, Oxford (The Poor Print) has an article that opens with a passage from Waugh’s first novel, Decline and Fall: ‘You see, it wasn’t the ordinary sort of Doubt about Cain’s wife … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford
Tagged Nicholas Poussin, Oriel College, Sydney Carter, The Poor Print
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Barchester Revisited
Novelist and critic Philip Hensher in today’s Daily Telegraph previews a new TV series adapted by Julian Fellowes based on a novel by Anthony Trollope. This is Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the Barchester Chronicles, which begins a three-part broadcast … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs
Tagged Doctor Thorne, ITV, Julian Fellowes, Philip Hensher, social class indicators
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Brideshead and Rhodes Must Fall
Timothy Garton Ash, Profesor of European Studies at Oxford and author of several books, mostly about Eastern Europe, has brought Brideshead Revisited into the debate about removing a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. The demand for removal was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Guardian, Oriel College, Rhodes Must Fall, Timothy Garton Ash
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Scoop
The New York ticket website ZEALnyc has compared the new film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot to Waugh’s novel Scoop. The film is based on the memoir Taliban Shuffle by foreign correspondent Kim Baker and stars TV actress Tina Fey. I must tell you that the comparison is not … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop
Tagged Chelsea FC, Kim Baker, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Names (Yet More)
In today’s Daily Express there is another story inspired by Time magazine’s recent misclassification of Evelyn Waugh. The story begins with a short review of Wavian names: The late author of Brideshead Revisited might have been tickled by the error. … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Martin Stannard, names, Will This Do?
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Hooper, Rex Mottram and Modern Education
Author and journalist Joseph Pearce has published an essay about the shortcomings of modern education on The Imaginative Conservative weblog. This is a follow up to an earlier posting on G.K. Chesterton’s views relating to the same subject in which the importance of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged education, Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative
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