Category Archives: Fiction

Sunset Boulevard’s debt to The Loved One

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Thanks to Steve Sailer for drawing to our attention his article in Taki’s Magazine about how much Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard is derived from Waugh’s The Loved One, which Wilder had tried to get the movie studio … Continue reading →

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Lancing College 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture announced

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Lancing College, the school which Evelyn Waugh attended between 1917 and 1921, has announced that the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture will be given on April 18th by Anthony Andrews, the actor who played Sebastian Flyte in the celebrated Granada Television adaptation … Continue reading →

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BBC Radio 4 discussion of Decline and Fall

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

On Feb. 21, on the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, David Bradshaw (Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford), John Bowen (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York) and Ann Pasternak Slater (Senior Research Fellow at … Continue reading →

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New Evelyn Waugh paperback, hardback, e-book, and audiobook editions published by Little, Brown & Hachette

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

On December 11, Little, Brown reissued the works of fiction of Evelyn Waugh in both paperback, hardback, and e-book formats (e-book link is to Amazon Kindle editions). Waugh’s books were last reissued by Little, Brown in 1999. Hachette Audio is … Continue reading →

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Winner announced of 2011 Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The Evelyn Waugh Society is pleased to announce the winner of the seventh (2011) annual Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest. Congratulations to Robert Sherron, whose essay “Guy’s Qualitative Journey towards True Vocation in Sword of Honour” was judged to be … Continue reading →

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists and Waugh/Pinfold

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

On the website of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, in a section devoted to books that have a mental health theme, Dr. Alexandra Pitman reviews The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: Both author and protagonist describe alcoholic hallucinosis – a relatively rare complication … Continue reading →

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Maugham, Ford, Waugh, and the experience of war

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

In The Spectator‘s Book Blog, Steven McGregor discusses Somerset Maugham’s The Hero, Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, and Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy in the light of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a follow-up post, David … Continue reading →

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Film adaptation of Bella Fleace Gave a Party

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The Evening Standard (London) reports that a film has been made of Evelyn Waugh’s short story Bella Fleace Gave a Party, first published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1932. The film stars Johnny Standing and Siân Phillips and will premiere at the … Continue reading →

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Party like it’s 1929: Vile Bodies at the V&A

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

This Friday, Feb. 24th, as part of its Friday Late series, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is putting on an evening of entertainment with the theme of Bright Young Things. Included in the program is a theater adaptation … Continue reading →

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Brideshead vs. Downton

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Alexander Nazaryan in the New York Daily News gives the crown to Brideshead.

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