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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh in Wonderland
In a recent New Yorker article, critic-at-large Anthony Lane, author of the essay on Waugh in the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), adds his own thoughts to the outpouring of words marking the bicentenary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anthony Lane, Lewis Carroll, New Yorker
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Mrs. Melrose Ape in China
The South China Morning Post recently ran a story by Jason Wordie about the activities in China of the American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson . While best known for her Angelus Temple of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Los Angeles, … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Aimee Semple McPherson, Foursquare Gospel Church, South China Morning Post
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Crouchbackian Undercurrents Seen in Australian Novel
A recent Australian novel tells the story of a soldier who suffered through the British evacuation of Crete. This is Archipelago of Souls by Gregory Day. It is reviewed by a writer identified only by his/her initials (“AF”) in The Saturday … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Archipelago of Souls, Gregory Day, The Battle of Crete, The Saturday Paper
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Sharper Sword
The South China Morning Post has published a review of Waugh’s Sword of Honour as part of a three-part retrospective review connected by each subject’s containing a knife in its title. The other two reviews relate to a 2006 recording by a Swedish rock … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged In the Picture, Michael Scott, Roman Polanski, South China Morning Post, The Knife
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Waugh in Sitcom Punchline
In the latest episode of the ITV sitcom Vicious, starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a elderly gay couple, Evelyn Waugh makes an appearance. In this episode (No. 4 of the current series) the couple are contemplating marriage after being together for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Derek Jacobi, Ian Mckellen, ITV, Vicious
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Candace Bushnell, Waugh Fan
U.S. novelist Candace Bushnell is the featured writer in this week’s By the Book column in the New York Times Book Review. She is best known for Sex and the City which was a collection of her columns from The New York Observer … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged Candace Bushnell, New York Times Book Review
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Waugh Among the Bohemians
The BBC is currently running a cultural documentary entitled How to be a Bohemian. It is presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell and is broadcast on Monday nights over the BBC4 channel. The first episode traced the history of artistic “bohemians” from … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Film, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, How to be a Bohemian, Stephan Tennant, Stephen Fry, Victoria Coren Mitchell
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Funeral Directors Revisited
This week’s Spectator carries an article by Cressida Connolly (daughter of Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly) urging that the negativity usually directed towards funeral directors be reassessed. They have a hard job to to that should be more appreciated. She traces … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Cressida Connolly, Funeral Directors, Jessica Mitford, Spectator, The American Way of Death
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The Loved One Among Top 10 Hollywood Novels
In the latest Publishers Weekly, The Loved One is named among the top 10 Hollywood novels. The list is made up by Michael Friedman whose own Hollywood novel, Martian Dawn (2006), has just been reprinted together with two previously unpublished novels, … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Hollywood, Martin Amis, Publishers Weekly
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