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Category Archives: Scoop
Joshua Cohen Awarded Copy of Scoop
In a recent review in the New York Times, novelist and critic Joshua Cohen went a bit over the top and has been called out for it in the Weekly Standard. Cohen is best known for his novels, including Witz (2010) and … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop
Tagged Daily Mail, Joshua Cohen, Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times, Weekly Standard
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Mrs. Stitch in the NYRB
This week’s New York Review of Books (June 4) has a retrospective article (“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”) by Robert Gottlieb on the life of Evelyn Waugh’s good friend, Diana Cooper. The occasion for the article is the … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, New York Review of Books, Robert Gottlieb
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Waugh Surfaces in Bosnia
Mark Lawson in this week’s New Statesman reviews a novel by Jesse Armstrong which is said to have a distinct Wavian influence: Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals. (The choice of title would not appear to have been influenced by … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Bosnian War, Jesse Armstrong, Mark Lawson, New Statesman, William Boyd
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Plashy Fen at Risk
One of the cover stories in this week’s TLS is “Plashy Fens: The Limitations of Nature Writing” by Richard Smyth. Or so its title is described on the contents page, if not in the heading of the on-line version of the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Scoop, Sightings
Tagged Nature writing, Richard Smyth, Robert Macfarlane, TLS
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Plashy fen and leprechaun-flavoured wine
Waugh scored a twofer in last week’s Telegraph with citations relating to both nature and food writing. On March 30, Waugh’s parody of nature writing in Scoop is cited by Robert Macfarlane in an interview as an example of what that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Jane Shilling, Nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, Telegraph newspaper, Wine
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Ishmaelia vs. Azania
Last month, the Independent ran a column naming what it deemed to be the 10 best fictional countries created by writers. None of Waugh’s efforts made the first cut, but the response was so great that a second round was published, … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Scoop
Tagged Azania, Independent, Ishmaelia
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Waugh on Greene
In a Guardian column earlier this week, Robert McCrum cites Evelyn Waugh in support of his somewhat eccentric choice of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as one of the 100 greatest novels in English. McCrum admits Greene has … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Scoop
Tagged Graham Greene, Guardian, Robert McCrum, The End of the Affair
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London Papers Report Burning of “Scoop” Hotel in Addis Abba
The London papers today reported that a hotel in Addis Abba described in Waugh’s writings was badly damaged in a fire. See Daily Mail (“Fire guts Ethiopian hotel made famous by ‘Scoop’”). Similar stories appeared in the Daily Telegraph and … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Abba, Hotel Itegue Taitu, William Deedes
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Guardian Adds Scoop to Top 100 Novels List
Robert McCrum, novelist and literary journalist, has for several months been writing a weekly Guardian column naming and discussing what he considers the 100 best novels in English. He is working through the history of English novel year by year … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Robert McCrum, Scoop
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Scoop Included in Daily Telegraph Top 100
Last month the Daily Telegraph published a list of the 100 novels everyone should read. This includes translations as well as books in English. There is no explanation of how or by whom the list was compiled or whether the books … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph
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