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London Lecture on Waugh’s Artwork
A lecture by Waugh scholar Rebecca Moore has been announced by London booksellers Maggs Brothers. This will take place in their 48 Bedford Square premises on Tuesday, 25 July at 630-8pm. The store, in new premises, is also sponsoring an … Continue reading →
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, First Editions, Lectures, London, Short Stories
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Tagged Maggs Brothers Booksellers, Rebecca Moore
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Waugh’s Dystopia
In the recent wave of interest in dystopian novels following the USA’s change of government, most attention has been focused on 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale (which has been made into a successful TV serial) and Brave New World. Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Auctions, Letters, Love Among The Ruins, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, Newspapers, Short Stories
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Tagged Commonweal, dystopian novels, Forum Auctions, George Orwell, Robert Harris, Stanley Salmen
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Radiohead Guitarist Still Reading Waugh
Rolling Stone magazine has published a detailed article marking the 20th anniversary of the release of the alt-rock band Radiohead’s breakthrough album OK Computer in 1997. In the course of interviewing the band earlier this year when they appeared at … Continue reading →
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Short Stories, Sword of Honour
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Tagged Continuing Education, Jonny Greenwood, Luke Wright, Oxford Student, Radiohead, Rolling Stone
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Waugh in the Weeklies
The New Statesman’s latest pop culture podcast, entitled SRSLY but pronounced “seriously”, includes a discussion of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall. This is SRSLY podcast #88 with commentators Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz. The discussion of Decline and Fall … Continue reading →
Posted in Adaptations, Collections, Decline and Fall, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, Short Stories, Television
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Tagged BBC Radio 4, Emily Hill, New Statesman SRSLY, The Spectator
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Waugh’s Bazaar
The current issue of Harper’s Bazaar (May 2017) has an article by Alex Preston based on the magazine’s archives that should be of interest: Alex Preston explores the Bazaar archives in our 150th-anniversary year, to discover a story of love, loss … Continue reading →
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Newspapers, Short Stories
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Tagged "By Special Request", "The Man Who Liked Dickens", Alex Preston, Harper's Bazaar
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Travel Guide to Guyana’s “Waugh Country” Launched
The Guyana Chronicle has announced the launch of a tourist guide to the Rupununi region of southern Guyana: …the North Rupununi was an extraordinary natural area in southern Guyana that for the last 30 years had been isolated from the … Continue reading →
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Short Stories
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Tagged Guyana Chronicle, Rupununi Region Guide
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Evelyn Waugh and Tolerance
In an article in the Mexican newspaper El Informador, printed in Guadalajara, Waugh is quoted as the voice of warning against indiscriminate tolerance. The article is by Maria Palomar who complains about the current reign of political correctness: To tolerate is good. … Continue reading →
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Short Stories
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Tagged El Informador, Tolerance
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Waugh and Saki
In its latest issue, Prospect Magazine, an independent monthly journal published in the UK, includes an essay marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the writer Saki (a/k/a H H Munro). The essay, by Fatema Ahmed, opens with the … Continue reading →
Posted in Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Short Stories
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Tagged Prospect Magazine, Saki (H H Munro)
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Waugh in Japan
Waugh’s novel Scoop as well as a collection of his short stories have been translated into Japanese and were recently published in connection with this year’s 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death. The translator is Tagaki Susumu and the books are published by Hakusuisha. … Continue reading →
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, Short Stories, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
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Tagged Japanese translations
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Auction of Several Waugh Items in July
Forum Auctions of London has issued a catalogue of several items of interest involving books written and owned by and correspondence of Evelyn Waugh. The 75 lots come from various sources. Of the several pieces of correspondence, perhaps the most … Continue reading →
Posted in Auctions, Black Mischief, First Editions, Letters, London, PRB, Short Stories
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Tagged Forum Auctions, Robert Byron
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