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Category Archives: Articles
A Recent Visit to “Whispering Glades”
In this week’s LA Weekly, an alternative newspaper distributed in the Los Angeles region, there is a humorous description of a recent visit to Forest Lawn Cemetery by artist and illustrator Tony Mostrom. He begins with references to the negativity expressed … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Conferences, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Forest Lawn Cemetery, LA Weekly, Tony Mostrom
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Jay McInerney Lists Waugh in NY Times Article
In listing his favorite books, novelist and, more recently, wine commentator Jay McInerney included Waugh’s A Handful of Dust. His own first novel Bright Lights, Big City (1984) might be considered a 1980s version of Decline and Fall. In an article … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Articles, Newspapers
Tagged Jay McInerney, New York Times
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Alec Waugh and the Cocktail Party
The website Vinepair, which is devoted to wine, beer and spirits, has posted an article by Emily Bell about how Alec Waugh invented the cocktail party. As he explained in an article in Esquire, he set out to find something to … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Humo(u)r
Tagged Cocktail Party, Emily Bell, Esquire magazine, Vinepair
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“Shevelyn’s” Version
In today’s Daily Telegraph online edition there is an excerpt from Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh to be published next week. The article is entltled: “The truth about ‘Shevelyn’: how Evelyn Waugh’s disastrous marriage shaped his fiction” and is based on a … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Evelyn Gardner, Philip Eade
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Waugh, Churchill and Maisky
The National Interest magazine, a U.S. bi-monthly espousing what is described as a realist view on foreign policy, has reviewed the diaries of Ivan Maisky, who was the Soviet ambassador in the U.K. at the beginning of WWII. The review … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Ivan Maisky, Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest
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Waugh Week in The Times
The Times (a London print newspaper) seems to have declared Waugh Week. On Saturday and Sunday (as noted previously) it published separate full length reviews by Paula Byrne and John Walsh, respectively, of Philip Eade’s new biography of Waugh. Today … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Benedict Nightingale, The Times
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Russian Literary Journal Marks Waugh Anniversary
The Russian literary journal Inostrannaia Literatura (Foreign Literature) has devoted about two-thirds of its April 2016 issue to a collection of essays and translations relating to Evelyn Waugh. This was issued on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death. The cover is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Articles, Interviews, Labels, Letters, Radio Programs
Tagged Inostrannaia literatura, Radio Svoboda, Russian translations
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Weekly Standard Reviews The Prose Factory
The US neoconservative journal The Weekly Standard in its latest issue has reviewed D J Taylor’s history of the English “man of letters” since World War I . See earlier posts. The book, entitled The Prose Factory, was published earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Dominic Green, The Prose Factory, Weekly Standard
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Brideshead Reviewed in Brighton (More)
Drama critic David Guest has reviewed the Brighton performance of Brideshead Revisited in the Chichester Observer. He found the production to be “undeniably brave but extremely bitty,” and that it might “make the audience feel that they are just mugging up … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Brighton, Chichester Observer, David Guest, Gay Times
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The Daily Beast on The Daily Beast
In an article in the online newspaper The Daily Beast, Robert Bateman describes the origin of the paper’s name. He recounts how the 1935 Abyssinian War was influenced by the First Abyssinian War of 1895-96, which Italy lost disastrously. Benito Mussolini was 13 … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyssinia, Robert Bateman, The Daily Beast
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