Category Archives: Black Mischief

Dame Edna’s Book Sale

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Mail has reported the upcoming auction sale of the book collection of the late comedian Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage). The most interesting item (Lot 235) among the three lots offered relating to Evelyn Waugh is this … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Television and Weblogs

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

–Blogger Andrew Kern has posted on Substack an article praising Waugh’s war novel Men at Arms. Here are the opening paragraphs: Evelyn Waugh wrote better than any dead or living Briton from the 20th century. He tells stories that incorporate … Continue reading →

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Early October Roundup

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Daily Telegraph has posted an article by Christopher Howse on “bed rotting”.  Here’s the opening section: One of my favourite books, Illustrations of Madness by John Haslam (1810), tells of how the unfortunate James Tilly Matthews, plagued by a gang operating … Continue reading →

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Dog Days Roundup

Posted on August 24, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–BBC has announced the rebroadcast of a three-hour adaptation of Waugh’s wartime novel Put Out More Flags. This will air on BBC Radio 4 Extra over three successive days at 15:00p British time starting on Tuesday, 3 September 2024. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Bank Holiday/Memorial Day Roundup

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–Novelist Kevin Kwan was recently interviewed in LitHub. This was on the occasion of last week’s issuance of his latest novel Lies and Weddings. Here’s the opening: Kevin Kwan’s much anticipated new novel, Lies and Weddings, is out today [21 … Continue reading →

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Easter Roundup

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Jesuit journal America has an article by senior editor James T Keane entitled “The sometimes-savage perfection of Catholic parody.” In looking back over previous articles on this theme, he came up with one in 1958 where its author Joel … Continue reading →

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2022 Academic Papers

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

Announcements of academic papers with Evelyn Waugh in their title for the calendar year 2022 are posted below. Where abstracts have been published with the title and source, these have been included: –Guy Woodward, “Conducting his Own Campaigns: Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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New Years Roundup

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–The website LibraryThing.com has posted a review of the Folio Society editions of Black Mischief of which there have been three. Here’s the text: [Black Mischief] is a quite politically incorrect farce set in 1930 in the mythical country of … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Rereading Black Mischief

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–A recent column of The Times “Rereading” series contains a brief essay on Waugh’s 1932 comic novel Black Mischief. The column, published in today’s edition, is by Will Lloyd. Here’s the opening: One afternoon in the absurdly early Thirties, Evelyn … Continue reading →

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LRB Posts Waugh Article

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

The London Review of Books has posted a feature length article by Seamus Perry relating to several of Waugh’s books. This is entitled “Isn’t London Hell?” The article ostensibly reviews 5 of the 6 Waugh novels published late last year … Continue reading →

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