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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh’s Politics in Fiction and Real Life
Writer and historian Minoo Dinshaw, author of the recently published biography of Steven Runciman, has written an article for Catholic Herald which traces Waugh’s political views through the characters in his novels. It is entitled “Forewaughned” and begins with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Catholic Herald, Minoo Dinshaw
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Perry Mason’s Return
Erle Stanley Gardner’s most famous character Perry Mason has returned to TV. This is in a new series on HBO which is about to conclude its first run tonight. Philip Martin has written a background article on the earlier CBS … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason, Philip Martin
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New Brideshead Edition Announced
Waugh’s North American publisher Little, Brown & Co. has announced plans to issue a new edition of Brideshead Revisited in November. This is to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Little, Brown’s publication of the book in January 1946. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Berkley Books, George Orwell, Little Brown & Co, Publishers Weekly
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Challenging Waugh Question
On this week’s BBC Two episode of University Challenge, a Waugh reference formed one half of a 10 point question. Jeremy Paxman presented the question thus: What five letter word links an ironic synonym for “Force” in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Jeremy Paxman, University Challenge
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Soho and Auberon Revisited
A new book about Soho has been written by Darren Coffield. This is Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia. It was reviewed in a recent London Review of Books by novelist Andrew O’Hagan whose review may be even … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A N Wilson, London Review of Books, Soho, The Oldie, The Times
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Roundup
–The Irish Times has a story about a visit to Birr Castle in Ireland. This is the home of the Earls of Rosse, and the present Lady Rosse conducts the IT ‘s reporter, Rosita Boland, through the house in a televised … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Ronald Knox
Tagged Daily Mail, DBC Pierre, Epoch Times, First Things, Guardian, Irish Times, The Scotsman
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A Buyer’s Market for Quennell and Connolly
Duncan McLaren has aded another article about Evelyn Waugh’s interest in Anthony Powell’s novel cycle Dance to the Music of Time. In this one, Evelyn and Nancy Mitford continue their discussion of Powell’s books, focussing on the second in the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Discussions, Humo(u)r, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell, Cyril Connolly, Duncan McLaren, Peter Quennell
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Waugh’s Good Read on BBC
BBC Radio 4 has rebroadcast earlier today a 2010 episode of their series A Good Read where a moderator and two guests discuss a book each of them has chosen. In this episode the moderator Sue MacGregor chooses Waugh’s 1930s … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Radio, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged A Good Read, BBC
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End-of-July Roundup
—The Economist magazine’s 1843 section has an article by Catherine Nixey entitled: “The death of nostalgia”. It is subtitled: “People used to pine for a simpler life. Now they’ve got it – and it’s not all it’s cracked up to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Economist, First Things, Harry Mottram, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tatler, The Spectator
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A Handful of Offense
Writing in the Catholic Herald, novelist and critic Philip Hensher considers the implications of the current movement to suppress or destroy monuments and other public expressions that give offense to the present generation. This is in an article entitled: “Many … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Catholic Herald, Philip Hensher
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