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Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) R.I.P.

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Poet, novelist and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. In his native city, the Montreal Gazette has invoked the words of Evelyn Waugh in a memorial article: Evelyn Waugh once said at a certain point in his … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Nostalgia

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Washington Post’s theatre critic Peter Marks waxes nostalgic in response to the current period of political turmoil consuming the United States. Most prominently, in a recent column entitled “Nostalgia! Yestalgia!”, he harks back to the “soothing” musical comedies of Rodgers and … Continue reading →

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Mr and Mrs Chatterbox

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Today’s Daily Express carries a story (reproduced in PressReader) about a woman named Doris Delevigne who was one of the few working-class members of the Bright Young People. Born in 1900, she pulled herself up from the lower classes with the … Continue reading →

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Waugh Article to Appear in Next Issue of Journal

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Space Between, an academic journal devoted to literature and culture in the interwar period, has announced the contents of its next issue. The lead article will be by Waugh scholar Naomi Milthorpe, who teaches at the University of Tasmania. The … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Terry Southern

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In the latest issue of the New Yorker, there is an interesting article (“The Novelist of Human Unknowability”) about Henry Green written by London-based literary critic Leo Robson. The article is built around the friendship between Green and US writer Terry … Continue reading →

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Actress Cites Waugh in Career Move

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

TV and film actress Sarah Jessica Parker has announced a new career in publishing, apparently part-time. She made her name in the HBO series Sex and the City. According to the story in T: The New York Times Style Magazine: … Continue reading →

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Lt Hooper Enters US Politics

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Tim Kaine, Democratic candidate for Vice President is likened to Waugh’s character Lt Hooper from his novel Brideshead Revisited: Though a bit character, [Hooper] plays an indispensible role. In his unquestioning embrace of the dominant pieties of his … Continue reading →

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“Death to Picasso”

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Columnist, editor of The New Ctiterion and scourge of academic political correctness, Roger Kimball, has cited Waugh in an article in the conservative/libertarian weblog PJ Media. This was in the context of a “PC” debate that arose from recent unrest in … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the McCarthyites

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A blogger posting on a community news weblog for West Berkshire has been inspired by reading The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh to pronounce her assessment of Waugh’s life and work (Penny Post, 29 Sept-9 Oct). After declaring Waugh a … Continue reading →

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Waugh Character Models Surface in Blogs

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Two of Waugh’s character models have surfaced in recent blogs. These are Brenda Dean Paul and Kate Meyrick. Dean Paul may have contributed to any number of characters in Vile Bodies. She was perhaps the most prominent of the Bright … Continue reading →

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