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Category Archives: Fiction
Brideshead Among Forerunners of Gay Lit Opening
In today’s Independent, Boyd Tonkin identifies Patricia Highsmith’s novel on which the new film Carol is based as an early example of ground-breaking gay literature. The Lesbian romance was originally published in 1952 as The Price of Salt but under a pseudonym … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film
Tagged Boyd Tonkin, Independent newspaper, Patricia Highsmith
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Two Waugh Novels Make BBC’s Top 100 List
The BBC recently conducted a poll of literary critics outside the UK to determine their choices of the 100 greatest British novels. Novels written by Irish or other non-British authors were excluded. The poll included 82 critics who were each asked to name … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Scoop
Tagged BBC, British novels
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Waugh Novel Recommended in Gift List
A Waugh novel has been selected for a list of potential gifts to be given to “conservative gentlemen.” The list appears on the weblog The Imaginative Conservative. The criteria for inclusion provide that the gift must be “quality if not…costly” (avoiding ties, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Television
Tagged The Imaginative Conservative
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Waugh Named Author of the Week
A Durham University based weblog (The Bubble) has named Waugh its “Author of the Week.” Here’s an excerpt from their supporting statement: Waugh’s education in Oxford fostered a deep love of country house society which influenced many of his novels, the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Durham University, The Bubble
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Unfaithful Wives in the Guardian
Novelist Piers Paul Read has compiled a list of the Top 10 Novels About Unfaithful Wives earlier this week in the Guardian. Among those named are Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. It seemed odd that there was nothing by … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour
Tagged Guardian, Piers Paul Read, Unfaithful Wives
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Waugh on Writing x 3
Waugh scores a hat trick in today’s press with three stories citing him on the art of writing. In the Daily Express, Waugh appears in a review of the BBC’s ongoing series based on John Lanchester’s 2012 novel Capital. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Interviews, Television
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Harvard Crimson
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Fitzroy Maclean Commemorated on St. Andrew’s Day
Fitzroy Maclean, Waugh’s commanding officer in Yugoslavia, was commemorated yesterday in an editorial on the Foreign and Colonial Office weblog. The occasion was St. Andrew’s Day. Maclean was, needless to say, Scottish. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘A man of daring … Continue reading
Posted in Helena, Letters, World War II
Tagged Fitzroy Maclean, Foreign and Colonial Office
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Waugh in Round Britain Quiz
A Waugh novel was part of a question in a recent Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. The teams were Scotland and Wales and this question was put to the Scotland team: Q8 (from Stephen Gore) In which apparently unproductive source … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged BBC, Round Britain Quiz. The Waste Land
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Waugh in the LARB
The Los Angeles Review of Books contains references to Waugh in two of this months’ issues. The first is in a review of a book entitled Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David Ulin, a transplanted New Yorker, … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Clive James, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Review of Books
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Waugh on Party Dresses
The Daily Telegraph has run an article by its Fashion Features Director containing advice on the choice of the appropriate party dress for various occasions during the upcoming holiday season. One bit of guidance offered is that by Evelyn Waugh: ‘Her clothes … Continue reading
