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Category Archives: Fiction
Leicester Schedules Waugh Events for Literary Festival
The Literary Leicester Festival has announced an ambitious schedule of Waugh-related events on Friday, November 18. A panel on textual editing will meet at 3-4pm at which Prof Martin Stannard and Drs Barbara Cooke and Sharon Ouditt will discuss issues … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Diaries, Festivals, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Literary Leicester Festival, Martin Stannard, Philip Eade
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Waugh Biography Reviewed in Standpoint Magazine
Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh is reviewed by Laura Freeman in Standpoint Magazine together with a recent biography of A E Housman by Peter Parker. Freeman connects the two authors at several points in the review, the first being their residence … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A E Housman, Laura Freeman, Philip Eade, Standpoint
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A Norwegian Review of Waugh’s Career
The latest issue of Agenda Magasin (a Norwegian language journal) includes an extended esaay on the career of Evelyn Waugh and his literary legacy in Norway. This is by Ivar Dale and is written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading
D&F Filming Moves to Winchester
The Southern Daily Echo, a local paper that covers Hampshire, reports that the crew filming the BBC adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall has moved from Cardiff to Winchester and is filming on location at Winchester College. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BBC, Southern Daily Echo, Winchester College
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Metropolitan Papers Continue to Trail D&F Production
The Daily Mail has published more photos from the Welsh location setting of the BBC’s production of Waugh’s novel Decline & Fall. Most of these feature Eva Longoria between takes as Margot Beste-Chetwynde, but there are also several of Jake … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Jake Whitehall
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Two Waugh Events at Cheltenham Festival
The Cheltenham Literature Festival is featuring two Waugh-related events in October. The first is entitled Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead and Beyond and will involve a panel discussion. Here’s a description: Philip Eade, author of the new biography Evelyn Waugh: A Life … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals
Tagged Cheltenham Literature Festival
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Waugh Connections
Times gossip columnist Patrick Kidd discusses Phiip Eade’s identification of models for Waugh characters in today’s “Diary”: …Lord Parakeet in Decline and Fall was based on Gavin Henderson, an exceedingly camp noble who, on becoming Lord Faringdon, opened a speech … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, Hampstead, Letters, London, Newspapers
Tagged Canonbury Square, George Orwell, Islington Gazette, Isokon, RIBA, Times newspaper
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New Criterion Reprints Article on Waugh’s African Writings
The New Criterion has reprinted a 2003 article by James Panero about Waugh’s writings on Africa, making the point that Waugh got most things right. This is entitled “Reading Africa in Waugh.” Panero’s family had business in Africa; his grandfather ran a … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Letters, Scoop
Tagged Africa, James Panero, New Criterion
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Waugh Event in Cincinnati
The Mercantile Library in Cincinnati is sponsoring a series of lectures and discussions moderated by independent writer and researcher Richard Lauf on the subject of Making Us Laugh: Four Comedic Literary Novels. The series will begin on Tuesday, 30 August at … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Events, Lectures, Scoop
Tagged Cincinnati Mercantile Library, comic novels, Richard Lauf
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Billy Wilder, Sunset Blvd, and The Loved One
An article posted on the MyInform.com news blog reviews the history of the classic 1950 Hollywood film Sunset Boulevard, written and directed by Billy Wilder. The author of the article, which appears to be generally well written and researched, is identified … Continue reading
