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Category Archives: Fiction
Boris Johnson Wins “Pennyfeather Prize”
Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph reports on Boris Johnson’s overblown responses to parliamentary questions: …Virtually his every answer was a speech, lasting two, three, four minutes…Whether the committee found Mr Johnson’s views enlightening, I couldn’t say. But as … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon
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Pappenhacker Awards in The Australian
The Murdoch organization’s Antipodean news outlet, The Australian, reports awards to journalists based on a Waugh character, a foreign correspondent named Pappenhacker from Scoop. This is explained in the paper’s column “Media Watch Dog” by Gerard Henderson, starting with a … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Gerard Henderson, Pappenhacker awards, The Australian
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Interview at Castle Howard
The Sunday Times published an interview earlier this month of Victoria Howard. She is described as the new chatelaine of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire where both the TV and cinema versions of Brideshead Revisited were filmed. She refuses to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Eleanor Doughty, Sunday Times, Victoria Howard
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Alan Hollinghurst and Ambrose Silk
Esquire magazine recently interviewed novelist Alan Hollinghurst and among the questions asked was which authors had most influenced him. An excerpt from the interview and a printed list of the books he mentioned are posted on the internet. (See this … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Esquire magazine
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The Waughs and the Leigh Fermors
Two recent books about Patrick Leigh Fermor (Paddy) and his wife Joan include material about their interactions with Evelyn Waugh, his wife Laura, and their mutual friends: The first is Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick. Evelyn … Continue reading
Another Lygon and More Bridesheads
The Daily Mail has an article about a recently pubished diary kept by two early women undergraduates at St Hugh’s College, Oxford: Dorothy Hammonds and Margaret Mowll. Their diary starts in 1905 and describes the restricted lives of the Oxford … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Daily Mail, Independent Theatre Adelaide, Lygon family, St Hugh's College, Tom Stoppard Arcadia, University of Louisiana Lafayette
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Brideshead Film Emerges in Weinstein Scandal
In wake of the sexual harassment scandal involving US filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, the New York Post has reported an incident arising from the production of the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. In 2007, Weinstein visited the production on location … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Emma Thompson, Harvey Weinstein, Hayley Atwell, New York Post
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Three Generations of Waughs in The Oldie
Various Waughs (and their associates) are scattered throughout the pages of this month’s issue of The Oldie. The leading feature article by Alan Thomas is about the Bright Young People and opens with a reference to Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies: … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell, BBC Arena, Daily Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare, Selina Hastings, The Oldie
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London in the Slump
A new book has been published about London in the 1930s. This is entitled Playboys and Mayfair Men and is written by Angus McLaren, Professor Emeritus at University of Victoria. The book focuses on a sensational jewel robbery at the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Angus McLaren, Bookriot, Clay Andres, Shelter Island Reporter
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