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Category Archives: A Handful of Dust
Literary Criticism Gets Reviewed
In the current issue of Commonweal magazine, novelist and critic William Giraldi is interviewed by the magazine’s book columnist Anthony Domestico. Giraldi’s collection of essays and criticism American Audacity was publshed earlier this year. After a wide- ranging discussion of … Continue reading
BBC: Waugh and Eliot
There will be a program on BBC4 tonight that may be of interest to our readers. This is “Return to TS Eliotland,” presented by A N Wilson. It will air at 9pm and will be available on BBC iPlayer thereafter. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Complete Works, Documentaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged AN Wilson, BBC, Face to Face, Sunday Telegraph, TS Eliot
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Roundup: Football, Ocean Liners and Bankers
–In the sports weblog Onside View, a blogger compares Waugh’s opening chapters of his 1930 travel book Labels to the situation facing Arsenal FC’s new manager: … Waugh travelled, and one of his earlier writings on such subject, Labels, saw … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Diaries, Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Australian Financial Review, Daily Mail, Frieze, Little Falls(WI) Journal, Onside View, recode.net
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William Boyd, Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh
Simon Kuper writing in the Financial Times reports an interview with novelist William Boyd. This is on the occasion of publication of Boyd’s latest novel Love is Blind: Boyd draws a “binary division” between two kinds of novelist: autobiographers, such … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Financial Times, New Statesman, P J O'Rourke, Wall Street Journal, William Boyd, Winston Churchill
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Early September Roundup
There is a diverse field of material covered in this latest roundup gathered from the last two weeks: —Quadrant Magazine, an Australian cultural journal, carries on its website a droll pleading (tongue lodged in cheek) from Tony Thomas that Decline … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Boa Vista, ChinaRhyming.com, David Lull, Lin Yutang, Quadrant, The New Criterion, The Scotsman, Vdare.com, Wales
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V S Naipaul (1932-2018) R.I.P.
V S Naipaul, writer of fiction and non-fiction, mostly about third world countries or their natives displaced to other lands, has died in England at the age of 85. His last notable action was to win the Nobel Prize in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days
Tagged Hawthornden Prize, New York Times, Nobel Prize, Stabroek News, V S Naipaul, Wall Street Journal
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A Tale of Two Anthonys
The current issue of the London Review of Books has an essay by Prof Perry Anderson on Anthony Powell. This considers the recent biography of Powell by Hilary Spurling and morphs into a longer critical consideration of Powell’s works. It is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged America, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Powell, Christopher Sandford, Hilary Spurling, London Review of Books, Prof Perry Anderson
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Early Summer Roundup: Promotions and Lists
Hertford College, Oxford, has prepared a gallery of its illustrious alumni for use on its promotional website. Waugh is the youngest of the 12 Old Hertfordians included. The unattributed entry is a well-presented summary of his writing career. It begins … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catch-22, Conde Nast Traveller, David Bowie/Alladin Sane, Heatherley School of Fine Art, Hertford College, Literary Hub, Marseille, National Catholic Register
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Desert Island Confusion
The Independent newspaper in London has a story in a recent issue about the BBC’s long-running program Desert Island Discs. This article by Alex Johnson focuses on book lists and this week opens with a discussion of the choices made … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Alex Johnson, BBC, Desert Island Discs, The Independent
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Waugh and Proust: A Handful de Chez Quoi ?
A brief letter in this week’s TLS raises several interesting points about Waugh’s understanding of Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. This is from Dorothy McMillan at the University of Glasgow: Sir, – As your correspondents have shown … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy MacMillan, Marcel Proust, Tatler Lady Kinvara Balfour, The Hill, TLS
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