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Category Archives: Fiction
From Anatolia to Catalonia
A Turkish website which looks like a promotional books blog (okuryazar.tv) has posted a brief introduction and excerpt from the Turkish translation of A Handful of Dust (in Turkish Bir Avuç Toz). After a plot summary, the introduction continues: A … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Arabalears, Marina P de Cabo, Turkish translation
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Roundup: Waugh in Publishing
Amazon is offering a new book by London-based playwright and singer-songwriter Roy Smiles. This is entitled Waugh in Winter and is the text of a play which is built around Waugh’s persona. According to the book description: Waugh in Winter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Chicago Review Press, Dans le manoir aux livres, Editions Robert Laffont, Elsa Lanchester, Irish Times, Roy Smiles, The Scarlet Woman, Town and Country
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Brexit, Flags and Travesties
Patrick Kidd in today’s issue of The Times devotes his “Political Sketch” column to the Commonwealth Conference convened this week in London. He opens and closes with references to an Evelyn Waugh novel: Put out more flags. Evelyn Waugh took … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, London, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Brexit, Commonwealth, Cynthia Zarin, Justin Trudeau, Patrick Kidd, The New Yorker, The Times, Tom Stoppard
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Waugh Underground
The digital/print magazine Mental Floss has reposted a 2016 story about Waugh’s contribution to the successful HBO TV series from the early 2000’s entitled Six Feet Under. This told the stories of a family in the funeral business. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged America, E M Forster, Esquire, Mental Floss, Six Feet Under
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Message to Milligan
The following quote said to be taken from a volume of Letters of Note appeared recently in a Twitter post retweeted from 2015: The comic Spike Milligan had great admiration for Evelyn Waugh. Whether this was reciprocated in any way must … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Men at Arms, Radio Programs, Twitter, World War II
Tagged Spike Milligan, The Goon Show
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Weekend Roundup: Waugh in the Book Reviews
The Daily Telegraph reviews a book by Julie Summers entitled Our Uninvited Guests about the wartime use of British country houses to shelter evacuated refugees from the bombed out cities or provide military bases. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged America, Bob Dylan, Daily Telegraph, Margaret Millar, Mark Twain, Ross McDonald, Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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West Virginian Poverty and African Diversity
Mark Sadd writing an opinion column in the Charleston (WVa) Gazette-Mail opens with this quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Ah, well,” wrote Evelyn Waugh, “to the journalist every country is rich.” And to the media, one can add, every West Virginian … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Africa, Charleston Gazette-Mail, Mark Sadd, Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine, West Virginia
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Yugoslavia and Ishmaelia
Dr Robert Hickson has posted another of his “essays” on Waugh’s life and works on the weblog catholicism.org. These should not be mistaken for religious dicussions but are rather compilations of writings from Waugh’s works or memoirs of his contemporaries … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Scoop, Theater, World War II
Tagged Abyssinia, Erich Wagner, Happy Warriors, Randolph Churchill, Robert Hickson, Yugoslavia
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From African Kleptocracy to Spark’s Legacy
A feature length article in the Australian edition of the Spectator deals with the political flap over policy toward immigration of white South African farrmers into Australia. This is entitled “Kleptocracy on the Cape” by Thomas Jones and opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Africa, Guardian, Leo Robson, Muriel Spark, New Statesman, Rachel Cooke, Spectator (Australia)
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