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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh and Tito
Standpoint magazine in its current issue has reprinted a letter from Milena Borden who is also one of our readers. She was commenting on an article in the magazine’s November issue as explained in her letter. Here is the text of … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Marshall Tito, Milena Borden, Robin Harris, Standpoint Magazine, Yugoslavia
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West Coast Waugh
The Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) has a review of Acorn TV’s DVD version of the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall. After a background of the novel’s writing and summary of the story, reviewer Brian Bromberger concludes with this: Director … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Acorn TV, Brian Bromberger, Caitlin Doughty, Robert McCrum, The Bay Area Reporter, The Spectator
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Prendergast’s Wig and Brexit
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
Weekend Roundup of Waviana
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
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Alma Gellery/Athens, Durham University, Financial Times, Joe Dunthorne, Matthew Richardson, National Catholic Register, Strategic Culture Foundation
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Precocious Waughs Reviewed in Italian Press
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
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Aridea Fezzi Price, Il Giornale
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Pinfold Redux: Muriel Spark Centenary
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
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Conferences, Letters, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Allan Massie, iNewspaper, Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark, Patricia Waugh, The Tablet, Universoty of Glasgow
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Andrew Marr and Ma Meyrick
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
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Marr, Bath and Bottle Party, BBC, Bright Young Things, Ma Meyrick, The 'Twenties
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Waugh Letter to French Translator
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
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Jean Dauven, Peter Harrington Booksellers, translations
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