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Category Archives: Books about Evelyn Waugh
Score Settling Time
In the 12 July 2018 issue of the New York Review of Books, Max Hastings, former editor of the Daily Telegraph, reviews Hilary Spurling’s biography of Anthony Powell. This is not scheduled to be published in the USA until the … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Daily Telegraph, Hilary Spurling, Max Hastings, New York Review of Books
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Naomi Milthorpe on Waugh
Naomi Milthorpe, author of Evelyn Waugh’s Satire (now available as an ebook as well as hardback), will appear later this week at the University of Tasmania’s Humanities Showcase. Her topics will be archives, literary objects and Evelyn Waugh. Also on the program … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Lectures
Tagged Humanities Showcase, Naomi Milthorpe, University of Tasmania
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Five Books (more)
Reader Dave Lull has done some additional research in the archives of the Five Books interviews and came up with a July 2012 interview with Waugh biographer Selina Hastings. See previous post. She was asked about books relating to Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Interviews
Tagged Five Books, Selina Hastings, Timothy Garton Ash
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Duncan McLaren in Grahamland
Duncan McLaren has added a new essay to his website. This is entitled “Evelyn Concluded or Ask Alastair” and is devoted exclusively to Alastair Graham and his on and off relationship with Evelyn Waugh in the 1920s and a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Wales
Tagged Alasatir Graham, Duncan McLaren
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Waugh and Fake News
The Mexican newspaper Milenio, which is published in several editions in all the major Mexican cities, has printed a feature length article on Evelyn Waugh. This is by Danubio Torres Fierro and is entitled “Las fake news segĂșn Evelyn Waugh” … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Danubio Torres Fierro, Mexico, Milenio, Philip Eade
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Roundup: Waugh in Publishing
Amazon is offering a new book by London-based playwright and singer-songwriter Roy Smiles. This is entitled Waugh in Winter and is the text of a play which is built around Waugh’s persona. According to the book description: Waugh in Winter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Chicago Review Press, Dans le manoir aux livres, Editions Robert Laffont, Elsa Lanchester, Irish Times, Roy Smiles, The Scarlet Woman, Town and Country
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Waugh Biographer Target of Poison Pen
Paula Byrne, is well known in this parish for her 2009 “partial life” of Waugh, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. She has also appeared and submitted papers at two Waugh conferences, one of which was notably presented in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Daily Mail, Jonathan Bate, Paula Byrne, poison pen letters, Richard Brook, Sunday Times
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Waugh and Anthony Powell (More)
Waugh’s influence is prominently mentioned in a review in this week’s Die Tagespost, a German language paper sponsored by the Roman Catholic church. The review is by Urs Buhlmann and the book is Powell’s novel The Soldier’s Art which has been … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Die Tagespost, Martin McGinness, Sydney Morning Herald, Urs Buhlmann
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