- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Category Archives: Collections
Halloween Roundup
–The London Review of Books in its latest issue has published an article by Rosemary Hill on the life and career of Auberon Waugh. This is entitled “Woof, woof” and includes a description of Auberon’s life from the time he … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daniel Mendelsohn, Hillsdale College, London Review of Books, National Portrait Gallery, New Criterion, Rosemary Hill
Comments Off on Halloween Roundup
William Boyd’s Library Tour
The Southbank Centre, which hosts numerous cultural events in London–mostly music and art but also including sponsorship of the London Literature Festival, are posting short videos of various writers offering tours of their libraries. The first of these involves novelist … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Collections
Tagged Southbank Centre, William Boyd
Comments Off on William Boyd’s Library Tour
Richard Ingrams Remembers Auberon Waugh
The Catholic Herald has published a remembrance of Auberon Waugh by Richard Ingrams. This is occasioned by the recent collection of Auberon’s articles in A Scibbler in Soho. Ingrams was editor of both Private Eye and The Oldie when Auberon … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections
Tagged Catholic Herald, Richard Ingrams
Comments Off on Richard Ingrams Remembers Auberon Waugh
The Oldie Does Auberon
The Oldie has been running on its weblog a series of excerpts of Auberon Waugh’s Rage columns from its early issues. The latest posting from 1995 deals with aging and is one of the better ones to surface. He begins … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Brexit, Catholic Herald, Harry mount, Jeffrey Bernard, The Oldie
Comments Off on The Oldie Does Auberon
One Humorist Reviews Another
Craig Brown writing in this week’s Mail on Sunday offers an article that is more in praise of Auberon Waugh as a humorist than it is of the recent collection of his writings. Brown begins with his assessment of Auberon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, Naim Attallah
Comments Off on One Humorist Reviews Another
Auberon Waugh (More)
Additional reviews of the new collection of Auberon Waugh’s writings (A Scribbler in Soho) are becoming available. The book was released earlier this week. Prof John Carey writing in the latest edition of the Sunday Times describes the contents as … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged John Carey, Naim Attallah, Roger Lewis, Sunday Times, The Times
Comments Off on Auberon Waugh (More)
Auberon Waugh “Celebrated” in New Book
A new book composed of writings by Auberon Waugh has been compiled by Naim Attallah and published by his Quartet Books as A Scribbler in Soho. This will be released in the UK on 24 January and is reviewed in … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Newspapers
Tagged Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, Naim Attallah, The Oldie
Comments Off on Auberon Waugh “Celebrated” in New Book
Martin D’Arcy, Art Collector
The magazine America: The Jesuit Review has a feature article in its current issue about Waugh’s friend Martin D’Arcy, SJ. This is by Altair Brandon-Salmon and focuses on Fr D’Arcy’s art collecting talents as reflected in his several acquisitions displayed … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged America: The Jesuit Journal, Campion Hall, Fr. Martin D'Arcy
Comments Off on Martin D’Arcy, Art Collector
J D Salinger Centenary Observed
Today is the centenary of the birth of US novelist J D Salinger. This is marked in a retrospective article by Martin Chilton in today’s issue of The Independent that opens with this: The Manhattan-born author notoriously went into suburban … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Collections, Events, Newspapers
Tagged J D Salinger, The Independent, Washington Post
1 Comment
