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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh Letter a Hit at Hay Festival
At this year’s Hay Festival, there was the repeat of of an event from previous years where letters from noteworthy persons of the past are read aloud by their counterparts of the present. The event is called “Letters Live” and has … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Letters, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Hay Festival, Jude Law, Letters Live
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Peter Watson: Biography of Everard’s Angel
This week’s Spectator reviews a biography of Pater Watson, probably best known to Waugh fans as the financial backer of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine during WWII and early postwar austerity. The magazine and Connolly are satirized as Survival and Everard … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One, Work Suspended, World War II
Tagged Craig Brown, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, Mail on Sunday, Peter Watson, Sofka Zinovieff, Spectator
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Sale Announced of Anthony Powell’s Waugh-Inscribed Books
Bonhams has announced the sale next month of several books by Evelyn Waugh, including some of biographical interest inscribed to his friend Anthony Powell. For example, Waugh inscribed Powell’s copy of Decline and Fall (1928) with the message, “For Tony … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Autographs, Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, First Editions, Items for Sale, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Anthony Powell, Bonhams
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Mrs. Stitch in the NYRB
This week’s New York Review of Books (June 4) has a retrospective article (“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”) by Robert Gottlieb on the life of Evelyn Waugh’s good friend, Diana Cooper. The occasion for the article is the … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, New York Review of Books, Robert Gottlieb
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WSJ Selects Waugh Novel for Book Group
The Wall Sreet Journal has announced an internet book group that will discuss Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. The group will be moderated by novelist Joseph Kanon, said to be best known for thrillers such as The Good … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Discussions
Tagged Joseph Kanon, Wall Street Journal
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More Praise for New Waugh Study
The reviewer for the Daily Telegraph (Miranda Seymour) has joined those for the Daily Mail and Independent in praising Duncan McLaren’s new biographical approach to Evelyn Waugh’s early life. See earlier post. According to Seymour: McLaren … offers us two scoops. Exposing … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Miscellaneous
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, Miranda Seymour
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Guide to Waugh Locals
GQ Magazine has published an article by Duncan McLaren identifying several of Evelyn Waugh’s drinking venues which are still functioning. In some cases, he also found accommodations in these establishments while writing the works mentioned in McLaren’s article. The article is … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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Waugh Surfaces in Bosnia
Mark Lawson in this week’s New Statesman reviews a novel by Jesse Armstrong which is said to have a distinct Wavian influence: Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals. (The choice of title would not appear to have been influenced by … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Bosnian War, Jesse Armstrong, Mark Lawson, New Statesman, William Boyd
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Plashy Fen at Risk
One of the cover stories in this week’s TLS is “Plashy Fens: The Limitations of Nature Writing” by Richard Smyth. Or so its title is described on the contents page, if not in the heading of the on-line version of the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Scoop, Sightings
Tagged Nature writing, Richard Smyth, Robert Macfarlane, TLS
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Evelyn Waugh Makes Election Appearance
The Guardian has dragged Evelyn Waugh into its U.K. election coverage. In an article on Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish National Party candidate, her apparent popularity is described as the “greatest constitutional crisis since the abdication, which Theresa May [Home Secretary in current government] … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Miscellaneous
Tagged Abdication Crisis, Daily Telegraph, Election, Guardian, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, UKIP
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