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Category Archives: Scoop
Tax Day Roundup
–An article in Lapham’s Quarterly commemorates Tax Day (even though it may have been postponed in the USA this year). This is from the recent book Rebellion, Rascals and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged BBC, Eton College, Lapham's Quarterly, Norman Douglas, Selina Hastings, Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Eudemon
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Waugh and the Cancel Culture
Simon Heffer writing in the Daily Telegraph discusses the cancel culture’s attack on Philip Larkin. He suggests the proper area of debate should be limited to Larkin the man and not his poetry. In the course of the article he … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Philip Larkin, Simon Heffer
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Late Winter Roundup
–The Daily Mail has posted some excerpts from the new and unexpurgated edition of the diaries of Chips Channon. Two of these new entries involve comments of Channon about Evelyn Waugh: Evelyn Waugh – Sunday, December 16, 1934 Lunch was … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Chips Channon, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, FarOut, FlashBak.com, Graham Greene, Guardian, Joseph Pearce, Nicola Pagett, Plotlines., TLS, Tom Wolfe
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Pre-Valentine Roundup
–The Spanish newspaper El Periodico announces the issuance of a Catalan translation of Brideshead Revisited; Sebastian and Charles burst into the kitchen, in love like penguins, to share in the bombshell news that Viena Edicions has just published in Catalan … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, El Periodico, Irish Examiner, New Statesman, The Spectator
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The Waugh Before Christmas
Several publication and broadcast media have featured Waugh’s works in their holiday season offerings: –The BBC is going to rebroadcast a 2016 radio program that includes readings from Philip Eade’s biography: Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. This will be transmitted … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC Radio Four Extra, New York Times, Nicholas Grace, Telegraph India, Times Literary Supplement
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John le Carré (David Cornwell): 1931-2020 R.I.P.
Novelist John le Carré died last week at the age of 89. Best known for his novels about spies, espionage and governmental bureaucratic intrigue, le Carre’s work would seem to have little in common with that of Evelyn Waugh. Spies … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, John le Carre, Mark Lawson
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Pearl Harbor Day Roundup
–According to a report in The Times, the Tate Britain is considering the future of Rex Whistler’s well-known mural that decorates the walls of its restaurant: A mural in Tate Britain’s restaurant depicting two enslaved black children has been described … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alec Waugh, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Arthur Calder-Marshall, Gentleman's Journal, Guardian, Jeremy Paxman, The Millions, The Times
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Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
–Stig Abell, former editor of the TLS, has written a book entitled Things I Learned on the 6:28 in which he writes about books he has read while commuting. The Times has posted a selection of the comic novels he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged ECADF, Ethiopia, Irish Echo, John Connolly, The Times, TLS
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Roundup: Ethics, Mimics and Graves
–The Minneapolis StarTribune posts a story about ethics in journalism built around a brief description of Waugh’s novel Scoop: …As serious as the news is, a few laughs can’t hurt. You’re in for a lot of laughs in the 1938 … Continue reading
Posted in Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Portraits, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Chateau Lloyd, Ford Madox Ford, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Frederick Etchells, Joseph Connolly, Kingsley Amis, Minneapolis StarTribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Critic
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Election Week Roundup: A Journalistic Memoir and A Belated Review
–Foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has died at the age of 74. The New York Times describes his career in their obituary: “Robert Fisk, a dauntless journalist who was widely praised by colleagues and competitors alike for relentlessly chronicling the Middle … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Al Jazeera, Ann Pasternak Slater, Essays in Criticism, New York Times, Philip Eade, Robert Fisk
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