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Category Archives: Scoop
Waugh at Thanksgiving Table
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
Posted in Festivals, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged H L Mencken, San Diego Reader, Thanksgiving
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BBC Radio to Air Discussion of Scoop
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
Posted in Discussions, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, William Boyd
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A Week of Waugh
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
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Baltimore Sun, Movie Nation, New York Public Library, Observer (NY), Robert Byron, The Guardian
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Australian Journalist Cites Scoop
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
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Mark Baker, Sydney Morning Herald
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Waugh Appears in Student Reading List
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
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged iNews, reading lists
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Scoop in the News
There are several references to Scoop in the recent London papers. The TLS has an article in its Blog about the comic use of the language of telegrams. It mentions novels by P G Wodehouse, Mikhail Bulgakov and John Swartzwelder … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Events, London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Philip Norman, Sun, Sunday Times Magazine, The 60s, TLS, V&A Museum
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New Criterion Reprints Article on Waugh’s African Writings
The New Criterion has reprinted a 2003 article by James Panero about Waugh’s writings on Africa, making the point that Waugh got most things right. This is entitled “Reading Africa in Waugh.” Panero’s family had business in Africa; his grandfather ran a … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Letters, Scoop
Tagged Africa, James Panero, New Criterion
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Waugh Event in Cincinnati
The Mercantile Library in Cincinnati is sponsoring a series of lectures and discussions moderated by independent writer and researcher Richard Lauf on the subject of Making Us Laugh: Four Comedic Literary Novels. The series will begin on Tuesday, 30 August at … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Events, Lectures, Scoop
Tagged Cincinnati Mercantile Library, comic novels, Richard Lauf
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