Category Archives: Scoop

Scoop Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this week rebroadcast a two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This was written by Jeremy Front who has also adapted for radio Decline and Fall (2016), Sword of Honour (2013) and Brideshead Revisited (2003). The Scoop dramatization was first … Continue reading →

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Waugh Novel on Winter Reading List

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The news webpage Business Insider has published a list of recommended books by British authors for reading on the long, cold winter nights now being experienced rather early this year in the UK. Among the 15 books selected, about half are … Continue reading →

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Goodbye to More of All That

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In the Guardian’s ongoing series of the “100 Best Nonfiction Books,” its latest selection is Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves’ memoir of his WWI experiences and early life. The Guardian describes the book’s depiction of the war as an: irreverent, comic, and … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Books Ranked in Fashion Magazine Lists

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Stylist magazine is a weekly print publication with free distribution within the UK. It has a books column which specializes in listing books in categories thought to be of interest to or likely to amuse its audience of young women. A recent … Continue reading →

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Waugh at Thanksgiving Table

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The San Diego Reader, a weekly alternative print newspaper, has an article imagining a Thanksgiving dinner at which Evelyn Waugh is one of the guests. The others are: writer and critic H.L. Mencken, Pogo Possum, Roman emperor Claudius, writer and … Continue reading →

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BBC Radio to Air Discussion of Scoop

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The next installment of  BBC’s A Good Read on Monday 21 November will include a discussion of Waugh’s novel Scoop. Here’s the description from the BBC Radio 4 Extra schedule: Rosie Boycott and her guests – novelist William Boyd and journalist Paul Foot – … Continue reading →

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A Week of Waugh

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A review of the preceding week’s online press and blogs turns up several references to Evelyn Waugh. The New York Public Library’s blog contains a short article on the occasion of Waugh birthday, recounting the origins of The Loved One: … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Japan

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s novel Scoop as well as a collection of his short stories have been translated into Japanese and were recently published in connection with this year’s 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death. The translator is Tagaki Susumu and the books are published by Hakusuisha. … Continue reading →

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Australian Journalist Cites Scoop

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Australian journalist Mark Baker has cited Waugh’s novel Scoop as one of the books that changed his life: This peerless satire of the foibles and vanities of Fleet Street in the golden age of newspapers is as sharp and funny today … Continue reading →

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Waugh Appears in Student Reading List

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The iNews (an online UK newspaper) has published a list of books that all well grounded students should read (not necessarily as part of a course or degree syllabus). The list consists of both fiction and non-fiction. For example, two … Continue reading →

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