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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 bandits’ 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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Weekend Roundup: From Germany to Mayfair
Waugh’s 1931 travel book Remote People is receivng more attention in Germany. This may be due to the issuance of a new edition of the full German translation that was originally published in 2007. In a Deutchlandfunk radio broadcast (or … Continue reading →
Posted in Anniversaries, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Remote People, Short Stories, Vile Bodies
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Tagged Deutschlandfunk, German translations, Heywood Hill Bookstore, The Spectator, Time Out, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh Short Stories in German Translation
A collection of 15 Waugh short stories has been published in German as Ausflug ins wirkliche Leben (Trip to Real Life). The book, reviewed by Diana Wieser, is a recent paperback reprint of the 2013 edition, both published by Diogenes Verlag … Continue reading →
Posted in Collections, Evelyn Waugh, Short Stories
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Tagged Diana Wieser, German translations, SL Leselust
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Evelyn Waugh and London Magazine
The Bookseller, a journal covering news of the British publishing industry, carries a story about a new literary prize sponsored by London Magazine. This will: …celebrate “exceptional” literary fiction and the 2018 edition will award a stand-out debut novel published in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Events, Newspapers, Short Stories, Sword of Honour
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Tagged Bookseller, London Magazine
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Early TV Adaptations: Vile Bodies and Put Out More Flags
IMDB recently updated the archival information in its database relating to two little-known BBC TV adaptations of Waugh’s works from 1970. These are Vile Bodies and Put Out More Flags. Both were 90-minute productions on BBC2, but some archival information … Continue reading →
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Short Stories, Sword of Honour, Television, Vile Bodies
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Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, IMDB, The Times
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