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Category Archives: Scoop
Roundup: Wavian Humour When it is Sorely Needed
–Duncan McLaren has posted a new article in a section of his weblog denominated “Waugh Bites” where one can find miscellaneous articles about various unconnected topics. The new posting is entitled “The Legs Have It”. This posits that two leg … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, PRB, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, Irish Times, Jewish News, The Times
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The Loved One Meets the Wuhan Coronavirus
–A blogger posting as “Sapper” traces the influence of Waugh’s writing about Los Angeles in the post war 1940s to what may be the first of several New Yorker essays by English writer and satirist Geoff Dyer, now a resident … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Geoff Dyer, leafly.com, New Yorker, The American Conservative
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Life in the Time of Wuhan Coronavirus
There are several articles containing recommended reading for the period of confinement during the present epidemic. But perhaps the most thoughtful is that in (odd as it may seem) the Daily Mail. This is by Roger Alton and relates to … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, Non-fiction, Research, Scoop
Tagged Adam Kucharski, Book of the Week, Daily Mail, Wuhan Coronavirus
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Roundup: Satire in a Divisive Age
—The Times last week carried an opinion article by James Marriott in which he welcomed the announcement that the political satire TV series Spitting Image will return to the screen. But he wonders whether, in the current age of divisive … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Gentleman's Journal, Hannah Rothschild, RTV Slovenija, Satire, The Lady, The Times, TLS, Town & Country, Will Self
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Shrove Tuesday Roundup
–The BBC has announced plans to release a collection of audio recordings of Jeremy Front’s radio adaptations of several works by Evelyn Waugh. This will include Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall as well as several others not identified specifically … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, LitHub.com, Sally Rooney, The Times
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Presidents’ Day Roundup
–The New York Public Library is celebrating its 125th anniversary and has used the occasion to ask its staff to choose the best 125 books for adult reading published during its lifetime. One of those selected is Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Irish Times, Spectator, The Times newspaper, Times and Star (Cumbria)
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Upcoming Waugh Events: Aberdeen and Leipzig
—Random House has announced a Waugh-related promotional event at the upcoming Leipzig Book Fair next month. They will offer two readings by Jan Weiler of selections from his audiobook in German of the unexpurgated translation of Waugh’s novel Scoop. This … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, Events, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged Aberdeen Press and Journal, Country Houses, Granite Noir, Leipzig Book Fair, NYU Institute of Fine Arts
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Waugh News from Slovenia and Sweden
The Slovenian online newspaper Ljubljanske Novice has published a brief review of the recent translation of Scoop into Slovenian (Esklusiva). See previous post. The novel is described as: …a satire on journalism. Waugh wrote the novel in part from the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Expressen, Ljubljanske Novice, Slovenia, Sweden
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Year End Roundup
—The Australian has a story headed by a photo of Evelyn Waugh. The story is by Greg Harrison and is entitled “Our prime ministers need a holiday–and time to read a novel for pleasure.” After noting his disagreement with those who … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martha Stewart, National Catholic Register, Sunday Telegraph, The Australian, The Spectator
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Waugh in Slovenia
Waugh’s novel Scoop has recently been published in Slovenian, the language spoken in what was once the northernmost province of former Yugoslavia. The translation is by Dušanka Zabukovec who also wrote an Introduction. The book is published by Cankarjeva založba, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Tagged Cankarjeva založba, Dušanka Zabukovec, Slovenian translations
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