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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh Recognized as Expert on Style
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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Miscellaneous, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Allan Massie, Black Velvet, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Joseph Connolly, Noblesse Oblige
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The Loved One Added to Recommended Books about L.A.
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
Posted in Film, Letters, Miscellaneous, The Loved One
Tagged Guardian, Los Angeles
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Plashy fen and leprechaun-flavoured wine
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
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Jane Shilling, Nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, Telegraph newspaper, Wine
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Ishmaelia vs. Azania
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
Posted in Black Mischief, Scoop
Tagged Azania, Independent, Ishmaelia
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Penguin Celebrates 80th Birthday Without Waugh
Penguin Books is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year by publishing 80 books in a Little Black Classics series. These consist of short (c. 60 pp.) extracts from its Penguin Classics series. Conspicuous by its absence is any extract from … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, Remote People
Tagged Little Black Classics, Penguin Books, Pocket Penguins
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Cousin Jasper Cited in Cambridge Varsity
The Cambridge University student paper, Varsity, has cited Jasper Ryder’s advice to his cousin Charles on how to succeed at Oxford: “You want either a first or a fourth. There is no value in anything between. Time spent on a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall
Tagged architecture, Cambridge University, City Journal, Jasper Ryder, Otto Silenus, Oxford University, Varsity
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Waugh on Greene
In a Guardian column earlier this week, Robert McCrum cites Evelyn Waugh in support of his somewhat eccentric choice of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as one of the 100 greatest novels in English. McCrum admits Greene has … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Scoop
Tagged Graham Greene, Guardian, Robert McCrum, The End of the Affair
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Brideshead Tops Telegraph’s List of TV Book Adaptations
On the occasion of the BBC’s broadcast of its adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels (taking its title from the first, Wolf Hall), the Daily Telegraph published its list of what it considers the top 20 TV adaptations of all … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Granada TV
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Guy Crouchback’s Religion Featured in Article
The online edition of First Things, a Roman Catholic journal on religion and public life, has published an article, Catholicism Before and After 1963: Two Novels, by Gerald Russello in which he contrasts the impact of religion on the character … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged First Things, Gerald Russello, Monk Dawson, Piers Paul Read
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Memoir of EWS’s Honorary President Published
David Lodge, the Society’s Honorary President, has written the first volume of his memoirs. This was published in the UK this week under the title Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-1975. An international edition is promised … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh Society, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Robbery Under Law, Television Programs
Tagged D.J.Taylor, David Lodge, Financial Times, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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