Category Archives: Fiction

Sale Announced of Anthony Powell’s Waugh-Inscribed Books

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Bonhams has announced the sale next month of several books by Evelyn Waugh, including some of biographical interest inscribed to his friend Anthony Powell. For example, Waugh inscribed Powell’s copy of Decline and Fall (1928) with the message, “For Tony … Continue reading →

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Mrs. Stitch in the NYRB

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s New York Review of Books (June 4) has a retrospective article (“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”) by Robert Gottlieb  on the life of Evelyn Waugh’s good friend, Diana Cooper. The occasion for the article is the … Continue reading →

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WSJ Selects Waugh Novel for Book Group

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Wall Sreet Journal has announced an internet book group that will discuss Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. The group will be moderated by novelist Joseph Kanon, said to be best known for thrillers such as The Good … Continue reading →

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Waugh Surfaces in Bosnia

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Mark Lawson in this week’s New Statesman reviews a novel by Jesse Armstrong which is said to have a distinct Wavian influence: Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals.  (The choice of title would not appear to have been influenced by … Continue reading →

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Plashy Fen at Risk

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

One of the  cover stories in this week’s TLS is “Plashy Fens: The Limitations of Nature Writing” by Richard Smyth. Or so its title is described on the contents page, if not in the heading of the on-line version of the … Continue reading →

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Decline and Fall on BBC Radio 4

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a dramatization of Evelyn Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall. The script is by Jeremy Front, who recently adapted the award-winning radio version of Sword of Honour. Among the cast are Tom Hollander (as Otto) who … Continue reading →

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Waugh Recognized as Expert on Style

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In yesterday’s Guardian, Waugh is named twice by novelist and bibliophile Joseph Connolly in his list of Top 10 books on the topic of “style.” Connolly (no apparent relation to Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly a/k/a Everard Spruce) names Brideshead Revisited as … Continue reading →

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The Loved One Added to Recommended Books about L.A.

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Last month the Guardian issued another in its series of book recommendations about U.S. cities. This one related to books about Los Angeles. Others have dealt with San Francisco and New Orleans. The original L.A. list contained no books by … Continue reading →

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Plashy fen and leprechaun-flavoured wine

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh scored a twofer in last week’s Telegraph with citations relating to both nature and food writing. On March 30, Waugh’s parody of nature writing in Scoop is cited by Robert Macfarlane in an interview as an example of what that … Continue reading →

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Ishmaelia vs. Azania

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Last month, the Independent ran a column naming what it deemed to be the 10 best fictional countries created by writers. None of Waugh’s efforts made the first cut, but the response was so great that a second round was published, … Continue reading →

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