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Category Archives: Scoop
Evelyn Waugh, Travel Writer
Several recent articles remind us of Waugh’s pre-eminence as a travel writer in the 1930s, a time when foreign travel was still something exotic. The adventure travel magazine Avaunt has added Waugh’s Ninety-Two Days (1934) to its reading list: This account of … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Scoop
Tagged Avaunt, Ben Mcintyre, Brazilian Adventure, Eamonn Fitzgerald, Peter Fleming, The Times, Time Out
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Washington Post Recommends Scoop
In a feature length op-ed article in the Washington Post (“Dystopian Fiction is Big Now”), Christopher Scalia makes Waugh’s Scoop recommended reading. He begins by describing the unexpected (and probably unintended) result of Donald Trump’s election as having made reading … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Scalia, Washington Post
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Waugh in the Papers
There are references to Waugh and his works in several major newspapers. In The Weekend Australian, an article in their opinion section urged Brits, Yanks and Aussies to stop blaming voters they view as irredeemably dim for results such as Brexit, Trump and, in … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Financial Times, Graham Greene, Roy Hattersley, The Irish Times, The Spectator, The Weekend Australian
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HHA Literary Trail (more)
Another local paper (The Gazette) has published a story about Evelyn Waugh’s association with a country house on the Historic House Association’s new literary trail. This is Woodchester Mansion located between Dursley (where the Waughs lived from 1937-1955) and Stroud. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dursley, National Trust, Nympsfield, Piers Court, Woodchester Mansion, Woodchester Park
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News Bomb
As the concern over fake news spreads, an online newspaper in Chile has joined others in recommending Waugh’s Scoop. See earlier posts. This appears in a column “VerComeryLeer [SeeEatRead]” by Miguel Ortiz in the digital journal El Definido: We are being … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged El Definido, Fake News, Noticia Bomba
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Scoop Italian Style
Novelist and journalist Enrico Franceschini has written a novel about journalists. It is published in Italian with the title of Scoop, an obvious nod to Evelyn Waugh. The allusion may be somewhat lost on Italians, however, because, as Franceschini concedes in an … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Enrico Franceschini, Il Libraio
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New Service on Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway
The New York Times has announced opening of service on the new railway line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa (including videos of opening ceremony and trains): The 10:24 a.m. train out of Djibouti’s capital drew some of the biggest names … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Djibouti, Ethiopia, New York Times, Railroads
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Scoop and “Fake News”
There have been several references to Waugh’s Scoop in the wake of the new concern with “fake news” arising from present US political turmoil. As anyone familiar with Waugh’s novel will know, this is not a new phenomenon. Perhaps the most poignant … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Bill Turnbull, Daily Mail, Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, Ronald E Yates
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NYRB Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of the New York Review of Books has a review of Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by John Banville and is entitled “The Strange Genius of the Master.” Banville also named Eade’s book as … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Garry Wills, John Banville, NYRB, Philip Eade, Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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Rex Whistler Exhibit at Mottisfont Abbey
The Guardian has reported an exhibit of the works of artist Rex Whistler at Mottisfont Abbey, a National Trust property located in Hampshire between Winchester and Salisbury. Whistler decorated the interior of the house in the late 1930s when it … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Scoop, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Guardian, Ian Fleming, Maud Russell, Mottisfont Abbey, Rex Whistler Exhibition
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