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Category Archives: Articles
Waughs on Champagne
An online magazine (Alderman Lushington) devoted to drinks and drinking has published an article entitled “Drinking like James Bond: Casino Royale. Champagne and swagger.” In it, they quote Auberon Waugh who in turn quotes his father on the proper time … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh and Middle Age
In a recent column in The Independent, D.J. Taylor describes the evolution of the concept of middle age. He invokes the writings of Evelyn Waugh to illustrate the attitude toward middle age of those bright young people who were young adults in … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Independent
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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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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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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
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Tagged The Spectator, The Tablet
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Lodge Memoirs (more)
In this week’s New Statesman, journalist and academic John Mullan reviews the memoirs of David Lodge (see earlier post) and Antonia Fraser (My History: A Memoir of Growing Up). He sees the two writers as a contrast between “prole” and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Sightings
Tagged Antonia Fraser, David Lodge, John Mullan, New Statesman
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Waugh on Greene
In a Guardian column earlier this week, Robert McCrum cites Evelyn Waugh in support of his somewhat eccentric choice of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as one of the 100 greatest novels in English. McCrum admits Greene has … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Scoop
Tagged Graham Greene, Guardian, Robert McCrum, The End of the Affair
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Guy Crouchback’s Religion Featured in Article
The online edition of First Things, a Roman Catholic journal on religion and public life, has published an article, Catholicism Before and After 1963: Two Novels, by Gerald Russello in which he contrasts the impact of religion on the character … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged First Things, Gerald Russello, Monk Dawson, Piers Paul Read
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Waugh Out of Context
Writer Joseph Epstein in the latest issue of Commentary magazine reviews Richard Bradford’s book Literary Rivals. The article entitled, “‘You Stink’, He Explained”, opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Humility is not a virtue propitious to the artist. It is often … Continue reading →