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Category Archives: Put Out More Flags
Stephen Fry Film Compared to Waugh
The Daily Mirror in a review of the film adaptation of Stephen Fry’s 1994 novel The Hippopotamus describe it as a “mildly successful hybrid of a film noir detective story and the novels of Evelyn Waugh.” They don’t much like what … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Acorn TV, Anglotopia.net, Artforum, Daily Mirror, Ernst Lubitsch, Stephen Fry
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Scoop Appears on Home Fires
A copy of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop makes an appearance on the ITV drama series Home Fires. This is in Episode 1 of Series 2 which is now showing on PBS Masterpiece Theater. The cameo appearance occurs at about 18:20 … Continue reading
Posted in Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sightings, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged Home Fires, ITV, Masterpiece Theater
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In the Beginning was the Waugh
Journalists and bloggers are making a practice of opening stories with quotes from or cites to the works of Evelyn Waugh. Here are two notable recent examples: The Guardian in a story about today’s match between England and Wales in … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, The Loved One, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged A Reality-Based Community, Guardian, Six Nations tournament, W H Auden
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Blanche, Hat, Malpractice and Seal
Author Elisa Rolle, who chronicles the lives and travels of notable members of the LGBT community, has posted some of her reviews and ramblings relating to Brian Howard, Waugh’s contemporary from Oxford days. These miscellaneous excerpts apear to have been first published … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brian Howard, Elisa Rolle, LGBT Community
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Black Mischief on Surfer List
Evelyn Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief is included on a list of recommended books that every surfer should read. This is on the surfing weblog beachgrit.com and is compiled by Chas Smith: Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh is the most awesome … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Humo(u)r, Put Out More Flags
Tagged BeachGrit.com, Chas Smith, Kenneth Clark, Kevin McMahon, LARB, Surfing
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Floreat Brideshead
Brideshead Revisited receives attention in several recent postings. The New Statesman carries a brief article in its “TV and Radio” column in which a viewer retrospectively considers the 1981 TV adaptation: Watching it now, at the terrifying age of 53, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television
Tagged Bonhams, New Statesman, Pansy Lamb
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Weekly Standard Remembers Waugh
The latest issue of Weekly Standard carries an article memorializing Waugh in this 50th anniversary year of his death. This is by Algis Valiunas who is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The essay begins with the familiar characterization … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Algis Valiunas, Weekly Standard
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Penguin UK Publish New Brideshead Hardback
Penguin UK is selling a new hardback edition of Brideshead Revisited that was published last week. This is in their Penguin Classics series but has a dust wrapper that differs from the uniform hardback Penguin Classics edition of Waugh’s books … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Penguin Books
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Mixed Results for Waugh in Imaginary Booker Prize Competitions
The results are in from the competition at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to determine which book would have won the Booker prize for the year 1945 had there been one. Brideshead Revisited was on the shortlist and its case was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Booker Prize, Cheltenham Literature Feastival, Gloucestershire Live, London Review Bookshop
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