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New Biography by Selina Hastings
The latest issue of TLS has a preview from the new biography by Selina Hastings. In this, she writes of the life and works of novelist Sybille Bedford. Hastings explains in the excerpt that Bedford was raised in Germany in … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Laura Freeman, Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings, Sybille Bedford, The Times, TLS
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New Biography of Graham Greene
A new biography of Graham Greene has been published. The UK edition is entitled Russian Roulette and is written by Richard Greene (no relation but editor of a collection of Graham’s letters). The book is reviewed in the Sunday Times by … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Diaries, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, Graham Greene, Richard Greene, Sunday Times
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David Pryce-Jones’s Signed Books
Literary critic and historian David Pryce-Jones has written another memoir. This one is called Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime and consists of 90 memoirs of the authors of books in his collection which contain their signatures. In each case … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Cyril Connolly, David Pryce-Jones, Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal
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Anthropologist at the Hypocrites Club
A new book surveys the professional career of E E Evans-Pritchard, a noted anthropologist who made his reputation with studies of Sudanese cultures. This biography is entitled The Anthropological Lens: A Dandy Among the Azande and is written by Christopher … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Newspapers, Oxford, World War II
Tagged Adam Kuper, Anthropology, E E Evans-Pritchard, Hypocrites Club, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh’s Bananas in New Essay Collection
A new essay collection published last month includes an item devoted to the anecdote told by Auberon Waugh about his father consuming the first post-war bananas available to his family in front of his fruit-deprived children, some of whom had … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged bananas, Danlel Mallory Ortberg, Spectator
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Socialites to Socialists: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford
Two books in the news were written by or about two of Waugh’s friends and fellow writers: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford. As explained in reviews of those books, both progressed from upper-class to left-wing political views: –Novelist and critic … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Guardian, Inez Holden, Laura Thompson, Literary Review, Nancy Mitford, New York Times
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Waugh’s Birthday Roundup
Evelyn Waugh was born on this date in 1903. This is the 116th anniversary of that event. –The Oxford English Dictionary has declared today’s Word of the Day to be “Brideshead, adj.” While they do not mention the birthday anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged architecture, Bruce Gaston, Fooshya.com, Oxford English Dctionary, Paul Theroux, Philip Eade, Truthdig.com
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Waugh Appears in Danish Trilogy
The current issue of The Spectator contains a review of translations of a Danish writer who describes a meeting with Waugh in Copenhagen in the 1940s. This is Tove Ditlevsen and the books are entitled The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Spectator, Tove Ditlevsen
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Lost Girls (More)
Waugh biographer Paula Byrne has reviewed DJ Taylor’s new book Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951. This appears in today’s Times newspaper. Byrne stresses that the book is as much or more about Cyril Connolly as it is about … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Festivals, Lectures, London, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell Annual Lecture, Cyril Connolly, D.J.Taylor, Henley-on-Thames Literary Festival, Paula Byrne, The Times
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Roundup: Waugh on Wine and More
–Literary critic and novelist A N Wilson writing in the Daily Mail has reviewed the recent reprint of Auberon Waugh’s book Waugh on Wine. According to Wilson: Celebrated author and journalist Auberon Waugh was an iconoclast, a political maverick and wine … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Boris Johnson, Boston Globe, Daily Mail, Frances Donaldson, Wine Spectator
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