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Category Archives: Short Stories
Mother’s Day (US) Roundup
–A post on the website thinkinghousewife.com has this cite for its Mother’s Day offering: IN HIS unfinished autobiography A Little Learning, the British author Evelyn Waugh remembered fondly his own mother: “My mother was small, neat, reticent and, until her last decade, very active. She … Continue reading →
Posted in A Little Learning, Exhibits, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Short Stories, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
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Tagged David Roman, Duncan McLaren, Literary Review, New Criterion
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Roundup: More Letters and a Radio Adaptation
–Another batch of Waugh’s letters have been auctioned recently. These consisted of communications with his bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe regarding special bindings for his own library and presentation copies. These were recently sold by the auction house RR Auction in … Continue reading →
Posted in Adaptations, Internet, Letters, Newspapers, Radio, Ronald Knox, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Short Stories
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Tagged RR Auctions, The Imaginative Conservative, The New Yorker
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Labo[u]r Day Roundup
–Writing in the New York Review of Books, Michael Gorra reviews novelist Zadie Smith’s latest book The Fraud. This is the lead article of this issue, and in it Gorra places the novel in the context of Smith’s other works … Continue reading →
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Short Stories, Work Suspended
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Tagged LitBug.com, New York Review of Books, The Oldie, The Spectator, The Times, Zadie Smith
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April Fool’s Day Roundup
–The academic journal Shakespeare has announced the acceptance for publication of an article by Barbara Cooke entitled “Waugh’s green world: Reconceptualising The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold as a transcoded production of King Lear”. Dr Cooke is co-executive editor of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Newspapers, Scoop, Short Stories, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
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Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Noel Coward, RTE, The Independent mewspaper, The Spectator
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Roundup: From MoI to Antifa
–University of London has posted a history of Senate House, a large modern building on its campus near the British Museum. It housed the Ministry of Information (“MoI”) during WWII. Waugh features in the discussion: Literary descriptions of Senate House … Continue reading →
Posted in Bibliophilia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Short Stories, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies
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Tagged Crisis magazine, Daily Telegraph, Julian Barnes, The Spectator, University of London
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End of March Roundup
–Alexander Larman writing in The Spectator marks the 75th anniversary of Waugh’s 1947 trip to the USA with the article “Waugh in Hollywood”: …in early 1947, [Waugh] was forced to confront the modern world and do something out of keeping … Continue reading →
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Short Stories, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
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Tagged Bookglow.net, New Yorker, The European Conservative, The Spectator, Vogue
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Valentine’s Day Roundup
–The Corydon (Indiana) Democrat recommends an Evelyn Waugh short story as a selection appropriate to be read on Valentine’s Day. This is “Bella Fleece Gives a Party”. The story will help the reader to “remember friends, loved ones” as is … Continue reading →
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Short Stories
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Tagged America magazine, Artemis Cooper, Conde Nast Traveller, Corydon Democrat, Guardian, Howard Jacobson, The Weekend Australian, TLS
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Winter Solstice Roundup
–The website Arab News has an article by James Drummond about how Armenians have succeeded as businessmen in many Arab countries. Here is one example: Armenians were famous builders. Indeed, Sinan Pasha, the great architect of the Ottoman Empire, was … Continue reading →
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Short Stories, Vile Bodies
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Tagged Arab News, Garrison Keillor, McGillReporter, Vancouver Sun
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Roundup (Hons and Chips)
–Novelist Amanda Craig writing in a recent Sunday Times article considers an unusual judgment in a recent terrorist case. The defendant was found to have downloaded nearly 70,000 pages of white supremacist material. The judge ordered him to instead spend … Continue reading →
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Short Stories, Television
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Tagged Chips Channon Diaries, Daily Mail. National Review, Nancy Mitford, Radio Spada, Sunday Times, Vanity Fair
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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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