Category Archives: Short Stories

Online Waugh Events: NYPL and Others

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–The New York Public Library has announced an online event next week. This will be part of their series Avant-Garde Reading Room. Here are the details from their website: Please join us online for our short story discussion on Tuesday, … Continue reading →

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A Different View of A Handful of Dust

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Italian online religious newspaper Radio Spada has posted an article reviewing Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. This is by Luca Fumagalli who has previously written about Waugh’s work. See previous posts. He begins his article with this: Released … Continue reading →

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Bastille Day Roundup

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–Veteran British actor Freddie Jones died earlier this week at the age of 91. Both the Times and the Daily Telegraph mention his portrayal of Corporal-Major Ludovic in the BBC’s 1967 three-part adaptation of Sword of Honor as his first … Continue reading →

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New Academic Journal Features Article about Waugh and Parties

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A new academic journal has been announced by H-Net.org (Humanities and Social Sciences Online). This is the Journal of Festive Studies. As explained in H-Net’s announcement releasing the first issue: Journal of Festive Studies is an open access, peer-reviewed title publishing … Continue reading →

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Waughlandias

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The Australian online journal Traveller.com has posted an article inspired by the latest (and final) series of Game of Thrones. That story is set in the imaginary Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and the article’s author Ute Junker moves from that … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Two Catholic Novelists

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Recent articles in the Roman Catholic literary press have linked Waugh to two largely neglected (in the English speaking world at least) Roman Catholic novelists. The first is an essay by Luca Fumagalli in the Italian-language online journal Radio Spada … Continue reading →

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Crut(t)well Redux

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren continues his project of including on his website essays about Waugh’s close associates. In this latest entry he traces Waugh’s relationship with his history tutor and Dean of his college C R M F Cruttwell. The first half … Continue reading →

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Nancy Cunard Story Published in TLS

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The TLS in this week’s issue has published for the first time a 1920’s story written by Nancy Cunard. She was one of the Bright Young People and went on to become something of a free-lance intellectual and left-wing political … Continue reading →

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Mischief in Manchuria

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The South China Morning Post has a feature length article about a sensational kidnapping that took place in late 1932 and captured the attention of, inter alia, Evelyn Waugh. The story by Paul French is entitled “How Chinese bandits’ kidnapping … Continue reading →

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BBC Radio 4 to Rebroadcast Waugh Stories

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 Extra will next week rebroadcast readings of three Evelyn Waugh short stories. Each broadcast will last 15 minutes: “Cruise”: Tuesday, 20 November, 11am. This was first broadcast in 2007 and is read by Abigail Docherty. It was … Continue reading →

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