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Category Archives: Black Mischief
Groundhog Day Roundup
—The Economist started the week with a story headed by this discussion of a Waugh novel: Evelyn Waugh, a satirist of pre-war England and of the careless aristocrats who ran it, would have had a field day with the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Com, iNews.co.uk, New Criterion, The Economist, The Oldie, The Spectator, truthdig
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Iona McLaren writng in the Daily Telegraph considers the problem posed by readers who want to be warned against reading something that might upset them–in this case about books in which animals die. The article opens with this: The US … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, Theater, World War II
Tagged Chelsea Arts Club, Daily Telegraph, El Diaria Cultura (Uruguay), The Guardian, The Times newspaper
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90th Anniversary of Black Mischief Marked
A feature length article in the academic journal The Conversation marks the 90th anniversary this month of the publication of Waugh’s third novel Black Mischief. This is by Naomi Milthorpe who is also the editor of the Complete Works of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief, Complete Works
Tagged Naomi Mlthorpe, The Conversation
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Roundup: Flaubert’s Birth and Hitchens’ Death
–Novelist Julian Barnes has written a rambling retrospective of Flaubert’s career covering all of his books and many of his own and Flaubert’s obsessions. This is on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Flaubert’s birth and is published in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, CrimeReads.com, Daily Telegraph, London Review of Books, Ross Douthat, Town & Country
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D-Day Roundup
–On yesterday’s 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings, The Herald (Scotland) posted a story by Ron McKay recounting how various people were occupied on the actual day of the event. Among those there were two writers: … JD Salinger, who … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Letters, Newspapers, Photographs
Tagged Georgina Masson, Kepler's Books, The Herald (Scotland), TLS
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Waugh and the Cancel Culture
Simon Heffer writing in the Daily Telegraph discusses the cancel culture’s attack on Philip Larkin. He suggests the proper area of debate should be limited to Larkin the man and not his poetry. In the course of the article he … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Philip Larkin, Simon Heffer
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Wilfred Thesiger Profiled in “The Article”
Biographer Jeffrey Meyers has written a profile of pre-eminent British travel writer Wilfred Thesiger. This is posted in the online literary journal The Article. Meyers begins by recalling his 1979 interview of Thesiger in the latter’s London apartment. He notes … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers, Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, The Article, Wilfred Thesiger
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