Category Archives: Fiction

Oxford Mail Previews New Book on Waugh

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford Mail in an article by Andrew Ffrench offers an advance look at a new book about Evelyn Waugh to be issued next month. This is Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford by Barbara Cooke who is lecturer at Loughborough University and … Continue reading →

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Journalism and Dystopia: Two Foreign Book Articles

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Works by Evelyn Waugh feature prominently in articles on two foreign language weblogs. In Spanish, the books blog entitled “Regina ExLibris” vigorously recommends Waugh’s novel Scoop (in Spanish Noticia Bomba!): …in Noticia Bomba! Waugh distills all his wit and talent for satire … Continue reading →

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Prendergast’s Wig and Brexit

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

A reader of the Financial Times has written to the paper equating Brexit to the wig of Waugh’s character Mr Prendergast in his novel Decline and Fall. Here’s the explanation from Geoff Scargill of Stockport: … All the boys know it … Continue reading →

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Weekend Roundup of Waviana

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

An Athens art exhibit has been titled “The Unseen Hook” (Το αόρατο αγκίστρι). The name is taken from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. As explained in an article on a Greek website: The “invisible hook” is what binds us to … Continue reading →

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Precocious Waughs Reviewed in Italian Press

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Aridea Fezzi Price writing in Il Giornale, an Italian language newspaper published in Milan, reviews Precocious Waughs. This is one of the first volumes published in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project and the first of 12 to be included … Continue reading →

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Pinfold Redux: Muriel Spark Centenary

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Articles are appearing in advance of the centenary of novelist Muriel Spark which will be observed next Thursday (1 February). Scottish novelist Allan Massie has written an article in the i Newspaper in which he recalls her career and his … Continue reading →

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Andrew Marr and Ma Meyrick

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC4 is rebroadcasting Andrew Marr’s 2009 documentary series The Making of Modern Britain. Yesterday, this reached Episode 4: “Having a Ball.” This covered the 1920s, and both opened and closed with a party. Marr began by mixing a drink he … Continue reading →

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Waugh Letter to French Translator

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

London booksellers Peter Harrington have on offer a 1946 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a  translator who was interested in producing a French version of Vile Bodies. This is Jean Dauven who apparently had asked Waugh a number of questions … Continue reading →

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Two Hits and Two Misses

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The staff at The American Conservative magazine are asked to contribute to a regular column called “TAC Bookshelf” describing and rating their current reading. Andrew J Bacevich devoted his latest contribution to Evelyn Waugh. He considered Sword of Honour a … Continue reading →

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Midwinter Roundup: Worldwide Waugh

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in two recent German newspaper articles: In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andrea Diener writes a column noting the domination by women of the Guardian’s fiction bestseller list–only one man made the list: Haruki Murakami at #6. … Continue reading →

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