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Category Archives: Short Stories
Online Waugh Events: NYPL and Others
–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 →
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Events, Radio, Short Stories
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Tagged Classic FM, Joseph Pearce, New York Public Library
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A Different View of A Handful of Dust
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 →
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Articles, Newspapers, Short Stories
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Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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Bastille Day Roundup
–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 →
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Helena, Newspapers, Remote People, Short Stories, Sword of Honour, Television
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Tagged Barbara Pym Society, BBC, Counter-Currents.com, Freddie Jones, Lactantius, OrdoDeo.net, Paula Byrne, Washington Examiner
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New Academic Journal Features Article about Waugh and Parties
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 StudiesĀ is an open access, peer-reviewed title publishing … Continue reading →
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief, Complete Works, Short Stories, Vile Bodies
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Tagged H-Net.org, Journal of Festive Studies
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Waughlandias
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 →
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Newspapers, Scoop, Short Stories
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Tagged Chipping Campden Literary Festival 2019, New York Review of Books, Traveller.com
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Waugh and Two Catholic Novelists
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 →
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Short Stories
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Tagged Henry Morton Robinson, Life Magazine, National Catholic Register, R.H. Benson, Radio Spada
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Crut(t)well Redux
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 →
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, Oxford, Short Stories
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Tagged CRMF Cruttwell, Duncan McLaren
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Nancy Cunard Story Published in TLS
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 →
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Short Stories, Vile Bodies
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Tagged Anna Girling, Bright Young People, Nancy Cunard, TLS
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Mischief in Manchuria
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 banditsā kidnapping … Continue reading →
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers, Short Stories
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Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Paul French, South China Morning Post
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BBC Radio 4 to Rebroadcast Waugh Stories
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 →
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Radio Programs, Short Stories
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Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra
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