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Category Archives: Fiction
NYPL Marks Waugh’s Birthday
The New York Public Library has marked Evelyn Waugh’s upcoming birthday (28 October 1903) with an essay on The Loved One which also compares the Hollywood novels of other writers. The essay is by Meredith Mann who works in the library’s Collection … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, The Loved One
Tagged Hollywood novel, New York Public Library
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Tab Hunter and The Loved One
A Houston blogger (Joe Leydon) has posted a story in which he explains how the career of veteran film star Tab Hunter (whom he met at at Houston conference earlier this year) was saved by a role in the film of Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Tab Hunter
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Waugh and Mr. Toad
Novelist Andrew Martin has written a column in the Financial Times in which he confesses to enjoy reading fiction about the very rich. His favorite hero is Mr. Toad not because he was, as he characterised himself, “handsome” and “clever”, but … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters
Tagged Andrew Martin, Books about the rich, Financial Times
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Whispering Glades and Tranquil Repose
The Argonaut, a regional newspaper covering the west side of Los Angeles, has published an interview with art director Mike Salisbury who has worked in film, broadcast and print media and lives in Venice, CA. The interviewer gets a rise out … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Argonaut (L.A.), BBC, Dr Who, Forest Lawn, Mike Salisbury, Tardis Musings
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Review of The Loved One DVD
A Connecticut-based newspaper weblog contains a feature-length article that is essentially a review of the DVD of the 1965 film based on Waugh’s novella, The Loved One (1948). The review concludes that the film begins well with the early scenes satirizing … Continue reading
Posted in Film, The Loved One
Tagged Mischief in the Sun, Robert Murray Davis
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Waugh and the Italian Ham
The internet site of a translation service has posted a brief article on the derivation of the word prosciutto as their word of the day for 14 October. In English, it has come to mean Italian ham, but in Italian, it is … Continue reading
Folio Society Issues New Edition of Vile Bodies
The Folio Society recently issued an illustrated edition of Waugh’s second novel, Vile Bodies. It has an introduction written “for this stylish new edition” by David Lodge, Honorary President of the Evelyn Waugh Society, and is illustrated by Kate Baylay. According to the Folio … Continue reading
Posted in Vile Bodies
Tagged David Lodge, Folio Society
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Paula Byrne to Lecture at Oxfordshire Museum
Literary biographer Paula Byrne will lecture at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock on the subject of her book Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009). The lecture, sponsored by the Woodstock Literature Society, is scheduled for Saturday, 24 October … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures, Oxford
Tagged Mad World, Paula Byrne, Woodstock Literature Society
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Waugh in North Devon
Following his recent appearance at the Appledore Literary Festival, Duncan McLaren has posted two new articles to his website. “Evelyn in Appledore” and “When Henry Met Evelyn” recount the details of Evelyn Waugh’s visit to that town where he worked on the second … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Vile Bodies
Tagged Appledore Literary Festival, Duncan McLaren, Henry Williamson
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