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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Thanksgiving Roundup
–Iona McLaren writng in the Daily Telegraph considers the problem posed by readers who want to be warned against reading something that might upset them–in this case about books in which animals die. The article opens with this: The US … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, Theater, World War II
Tagged Chelsea Arts Club, Daily Telegraph, El Diaria Cultura (Uruguay), The Guardian, The Times newspaper
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Book Launch in Oxford for “Handful” and “Campion”
Lincoln College, Oxford has announced an event for early next month. It is entitled “From Despair to Faith: Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust and Edmund Campion“. Here are the details: You are warmly invited to a discussion, with Clare … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Oxford
Tagged Gerard Kilroy, Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College
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World Cup Roundup
–A recent book with a Waugh theme was listed (with reservations) among the Daily Telegraph year’s best biographies: Daisy Dunn’s Not Far From Brideshead (W&N, ÂŁ20) is less satisfactory. What should be a dynamite intellectual history of how three great classicists – Gilbert … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged Castle Howard, Channel 4, Church Times, Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, The Times newspaper
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BBC Radio Adaptation of Put Out More Flags
BBC Radio 4 Extra will broadcast a 3 hour radio adaptation of Put Out More Flags in early December. This will be aired on three successive days starting Monday, 5 December at 0500 and repeated at 1000 and 1500, with … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Put Out More Flags, Radio, Radio Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Waugh and Intermodernism
An academic article entitled “Intermodernism and the Ethics of Lateness in Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton” and published in English Studies, v. 103, Number 6 (2022) has been posted on the internet. This is written by Allan Killner-Johnson, University of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies
Tagged Allan Killner-Johnson, English Studies, Harold Acton
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Roundup: Oxford, Metro-Land and Commandos
—The Times has a review of the recent book about Waugh and the Oxford-based Hypocrites Club, entitled Hellfire. See previous posts. This is reviewed by Daisy Dunn who opens with a well written summary of some of the book’s high … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Commandos, Financial Times, Marcel Proust, Metro-Land, The Imaginative Conservative, The Times newspaper
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Roundup: Books Listed, Reviewed and Revisited
–The Daily Telegraph has a review of the new book by David Fleming entitled Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club. This was published in the UK last month as noted in a recent post. The review is by Nikhil … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Entertainment Weekly, Kurt Vonnegut, Literary Hub, New York Times, The Critic
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Waugh at Hertford
Hertford College, Oxford has posted on YouTube an excerpt from a recent presentation at the college to a group of its alumni assembled in the college chapel. The excerpt is the opening of the presentation by the college Principal, Tom … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Oxford
Tagged Hertford College, Tom Fletcher
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BBC WWII Commando Series
The BBC has scheduled the broadcast of a 6-part docudrama series on the WWII Commandos. This will focus on the SAS, which was the brainchild of Commando David Stirling with whom Waugh was serving in 8 Commando in 1941. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Christopher Sykes, Commandos, Daily Telegraph, David Stirling, Financial Times, History Magazine, SAS
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Evelyn Waugh’s 119th Birthday
Evelyn Waugh was born on this date in 1903. His birthday is marked in several media announcements but this one on the website of satirist and radio commentator Garrison Keillor is the most detailed: It’s the birthday of Evelyn Waugh, born in London, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Garrison Keillor, Literary Hub
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