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Category Archives: Scoop
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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Roundup: Boyd, Banville and Paper Hats
–Novelist William Boyd is interviewed in The Times by Robbie Millen. This is on the occasion of the publication of Boyd’s new novel Trio which is about the creation of a film in the late 1960s. After establishing Boyd’s somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Letters, Scoop, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged A N Wilson, Books from Scotland, John Banville, Lisa Hilton, The Critic, The Times, Washington Post, William Boyd
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Roundup: Censorship and Adaptation
–There has been a colloquy in the provincial British press about racist language in Evelyn Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief. This was begun in an article or letter by Michael O’Neill of Penarth that was reproduced from the Western Mail. … Continue reading
National Review’s Scoop Podcast
National Review has posted a 30 minute podcast devoted to Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. In the podcast NR’s John J Miller interviews Christopher Scalia of the American Enterprise Institute. Both participants are familiar with the book as well as Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Scalia, John J Miller, National Review
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Dog Days Roundup: 18 August 2020
–Writing in a recent issue of the Daily Telegraph, literary journalist Jane Shilling bemoans the early reaction of the publishing industry to the coronavirus lockdown. In a period when reading and cooking were two of the activities the “lockdownees” could … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, Errol Flynn, Forest Lawn, Observer, Russell Shaw, Tom Paxton
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Roundup: 12 August 2020
–Digital magazine The Big Smoke–Australia has posted a story entitled: “Two literary sons an equal to their famous fathers.” This is by Loretta Barnard. The first successful father/son literary pairing she discusses is that of Alexandre Dumas and his son … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family, World War II
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Challenging Waugh Question
On this week’s BBC Two episode of University Challenge, a Waugh reference formed one half of a 10 point question. Jeremy Paxman presented the question thus: What five letter word links an ironic synonym for “Force” in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Jeremy Paxman, University Challenge
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Roundup: Protests and Summer
–The “Rhodes Must Fall” debate has been revived in Oxford in the context of the Black Lives Matter protests. See previous post. In the Daily Mail, a comment on the matter by Evelyn Waugh is brought to bear: Oxford will … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, National Review, Prospect, RTV Slovenia, Wall Street Journal
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