Category Archives: Fiction

Waugh-Era Map of “Whispering Glades” on Internet

Los Angeles Magazine has republished a 1950 tourist map of Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, CA from the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. This was Whispering Glades in Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One. A brief history of … Continue reading →

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Guardian Names Waugh Meal as One of Most Memorable

The Guardian has today (Waugh’s birthday) included a meal from one of his short stories as one of the 10 most memorable meals in literature. This is the feast ordered in Paris by the White Russian veteran of Kolchak’s legions who had … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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The African Epoch

A Georgetown University blogger (Paul Elie, Everything That Rises) was recently reminded of Waugh’s 1949 Life Magazine article “The American Epoch in the Catholic Church” (Essays, Articles and Reviews, p. 377). What called it to his mind was the story that … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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