Category Archives: Fiction

Waugh Welcomes Students

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Several student-oriented papers have quoted Evelyn Waugh in their greetings to students arriving or returning to university studies: —The Times Higher Education Supplement invited advisory Twitter messages to be posted in an effort to make first year students feel welcome. … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Sunday

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s Sunday Times contains an adulatory interview of novelist William Boyd. After describing his career at Gordonstoun School as happier than that of Prince Charles, the interview turns to his writing. His first book, published in 1983,  was … … Continue reading →

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Mid-Month Roundup: Schoolroom Confusion

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Our latest roundup starts with references to Waugh’s school days and ends with the 1970s Penguin reprints: —The Independent newspaper has published a list of what it considers the Top 10 examples of celebrities overlapping at the same school. Private … Continue reading →

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AFI Posts Details of The Loved One

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The American Film Institute has posted detailed production information relating to the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. Much of this is familiar but there are some previously unseen (or rarely repeated) elements included in their research … Continue reading →

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Battle of the Oxfords

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The regional UK paper Frome Times has announced an upcoming event that may be of interest to our readers: Lutyens’ Mells Park is the venue for a hot debate on Who Was Shakespeare? between biographer and critic Alexander Waugh, grandson … Continue reading →

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Early September Roundup

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

There is a diverse field of material covered in this latest roundup gathered from the last two weeks: —Quadrant Magazine, an Australian cultural journal, carries on its website a droll pleading (tongue lodged in cheek) from Tony Thomas that Decline … Continue reading →

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Waugh, The Royal Academy and Charles Spencelayh

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren has posted a new article on his website addressing Evelyn Waugh’s admiration of the works of the painter Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958). The paintings of Spencelayh were regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, and the artist was an active … Continue reading →

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Folio Society Issues New Brideshead Edition

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Folio Society has issued a new illustrated edition of Brideshead Revisited in its Autumn collection. This is a 344-page hardback book in a slipcase, with an introduction by novelist and critic A N Wilson. According to the Society’s online … Continue reading →

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Labor Day Roundup

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Spy writer Ben Macintyre was recently interviewed by the New York Times. To the question which book by another author do you wish you had written, he answered: I would love to have written “Scoop,” by Evelyn Waugh, that vicious … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Hat Trick in The Spectator

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

There is a diverse assortment of cites to Waugh’s works this week, with The Spectator scoring a hat trick in its various editions: —The Spectator has a review of a new book that attacks “modernist” architecture. The book is entitled … Continue reading →

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