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Category Archives: Fiction
Something for the New Year
Constable has announced the publication later in the new year of a book by D J Taylor entitled Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51: Who were the Lost Girls? At least a dozen or so young women at large in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Cyril Connolly, D.J.Taylor, Horizon magazine
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Boxing Day Roundup
–The Guardian in its “Top Tens” books column this week features “books on booze”. The selection by Henry Jeffreys is explained as “not a collection of books about drunkenness or alcoholism, though both feature. Rather, it is a celebration of those … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, Guardian, Lapham's Quarterly
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A Wavian Christmas, or Two
Magnus Linklater begins his Christmas column in The Times by looking at how noted diarists from the past have marked the holiday: Christmas does not always bring out the best in us — but did it ever? Diarists of the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Newspapers
Tagged Christmas, Magnus Linklater, The Times
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A Tale of Two Adaptations
The popular culture criticism website PopMatters.com has reposted a 2006 review of the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This review by Bill Gibon focuses more on the director Tony Richardson’s version than on Waugh’s story. He … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Television, The Loved One
Tagged ArchitectureAU.com, BBC, PopMatters.com, Tony Richardson
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Waugh Lecture at Lancing
The Lancing College website has posted a report of last month’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. This year’s speaker was OL Sir Tim Rice (1958-62) who recalled how events at Lancing had helped shape his career as a lyricist: Tim admitted that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Lectures, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Sir Tim Rice, William Boyd
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The Waugh Before Christmas
–The Daily Mail includes Waugh in a Christmas quiz set by humorist Craig Brown. Here’s the question: 10) Match the Christmas with the participant: a) ‘The presents I got were — as always — far inferior in every way to … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Paris Review, THE
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Pre-Christmas Roundup
The Financial Times has a review of a new book about country houses that opens with this reference to Evelyn Waugh who was something of an expert on the subject: Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited in the early 1940s as … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Country Life, Financial Times, Ian Fleming, The Independent
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Music of Time
The BBC has undertaken a review of classical music composed in the years 1918-2018. This is entitled “Our Classical Century” and includes recorded performances and commentary on both television (BBC4) and radio (BBC Radio 3). Selections will also be featured … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell, BBC, Daily Mail, Modern Age
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Roundup: Black Shorts and Literate Oenophiles
–Writing in America: The Jesuit Review, Rob Weinert-Kendt, journalist and editor of the American Theatre magazine, recalls how his life has been shaped by his reading and viewing of Brideshead Revisited as a teenager. He begins by putting the story … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Guardian, Jay McInerney, Literary Hub, P.G.Wodehouse
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