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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
The Loved One Added to Recommended Books about L.A.
Last month the Guardian issued another in its series of book recommendations about U.S. cities. This one related to books about Los Angeles. Others have dealt with San Francisco and New Orleans. The original L.A. list contained no books by … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Letters, Miscellaneous, The Loved One
Tagged Guardian, Los Angeles
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Plashy fen and leprechaun-flavoured wine
Waugh scored a twofer in last week’s Telegraph with citations relating to both nature and food writing. On March 30, Waugh’s parody of nature writing in Scoop is cited by Robert Macfarlane in an interview as an example of what that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Jane Shilling, Nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, Telegraph newspaper, Wine
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John Freeman (1915-2014)
We’re late in observing this sad event. John Freeman died on December 20, 2014. Here’s his obituary from the Daily Telegraph. Freeman was Waugh’s interviewer for an episode of the BBC’s Face to Face series (described in a recent post).
Posted in Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged Face to Face, John Freeman
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D.J.Taylor Cites Waugh to Rebut Fears of E-Book Threat to Novel
In a recent Independent on Sunday column (“Ebook apartheid: Fay Weldon calls on writers to adapt their style for technology,” 8 March 2015), critic and novelist D.J. Taylor addresses an argument by fellow novelist Fay Weldon. At the Bath Literary … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Festivals, Miscellaneous
Tagged D.J.Taylor, E-Books, Fay Weldon, Independent on Sunday
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Ishmaelia vs. Azania
Last month, the Independent ran a column naming what it deemed to be the 10 best fictional countries created by writers. None of Waugh’s efforts made the first cut, but the response was so great that a second round was published, … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Scoop
Tagged Azania, Independent, Ishmaelia
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Max Hastings Watches the BBC’s Face-to-Face Interviews
In this week’s Spectator, Max Hastings, former Daily Telegraph editor, comments on his viewing of DVDs of the BBC’s Face to Face interviews, which he had recently been sent as a gift. The recordings have been circulation since 2009, and it … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Face to Face, John Freeman, Max Hastings, Spectator, Tom Driberg
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Evelyn Waugh and Catch-22
Today’s Guardian adds Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 to its list of the 100 Best Novels, joining Scoop which was named in an earlier article. The article explains that Robert Gottlieb, the book’s editor at Simon & Schuster, tried to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, World War II
Tagged Catch-22, Guardian, Joseph Heller, Robert Gottlieb
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TLS Reviews Memoir of Gore Vidal
In this weeks TLS James Campbell reviews Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of Gore Vidal by novelist Michael Mewshaw. The review mentions a 1978 dinner party in Italy to which Mewshaw invited Vidal and his partner Howard Austen. The … Continue reading
Posted in Sightings, Waugh Family
Tagged Gore Vidal, Michael Mewshaw, Palimpsest, Teresa Waugh D'Arms, TLS
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The Tablet Celebrates 175 Years
The UK-based Roman Catholic weekly paper The Tablet is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year. Among the events related to the celebration that may be of interest to our readers are a literary festival at Birmingham in June and a lecture at … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Events
Tagged The Spectator, The Tablet
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Penguin Celebrates 80th Birthday Without Waugh
Penguin Books is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year by publishing 80 books in a Little Black Classics series. These consist of short (c. 60 pp.) extracts from its Penguin Classics series. Conspicuous by its absence is any extract from … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, Remote People
Tagged Little Black Classics, Penguin Books, Pocket Penguins
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