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Category Archives: The Loved One
Roundup: Books Listed, Reviewed and Revisited
–The Daily Telegraph has a review of the new book by David Fleming entitled Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club. This was published in the UK last month as noted in a recent post. The review is by Nikhil … Continue reading
Columbus Day Roundup: Cricket, Latin and Name Extinction
–In what is perhaps this week’s most interesting story, the Independent newspaper has posted a history of the Hollywood Cricket Club. This is by Leonie Cooper and describes in some detail the club’s founding, growth and membership. Evelyn Waugh makes … Continue reading
Roundup: Spike Milligan, Tom Stoppard and More
–Duncan McLaren has had the idea to compare the WWII novels of two British comedians who wrote about it, based on their experiences: Evelyn Waugh and Spike Milligan. Here’s the introduction: If Evelyn Waugh wrote a series of the most … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged First Thimgs, Maggs Bros booksellers, New York Times, Spike Milligan, The Daily Beast
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May Day Roundup
–The second part of Alexander Larman’s centenary recognition of Kingsley Amis has appeared in this month’s regular issue of The Critic. See previous post. He starts with an amusing description of Amis’s somewhat ramshackle acceptance of his Booker Prize for … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Alan Bennett, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Gavin Millar, Guardian, The Critic, The Jacobin
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Robert Morse (1931-2022) R.I.P.
American actor Robert Morse has died at the age of 90 at his home in Los Angeles. He is best known in this parish as the actor who played the role of Dennis Barlow in the 1960’s Hollywood adaptation of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged New York Times, Robert Morse
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Tax Day Roundup
–Writing in The Tablet, former Anglican priest Chris Moody provides a remembrance of Septimus Waugh. He begins by recounting a visit, shortly before Septimus’s recent death, where Moody showed him the photo of his latest work as installed in an … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged 25yearslatersite.com, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Daily Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, Pauline Melville, Septimus Waugh, The Tablet
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The Loved One in Italy
A review of The Loved One has appeared in the Italian language religious website Radio Spada. This is by Luca Fumagalli who has been working his way through Waugh’s oeuvre as well as that of his contemporaries. This latest installment … Continue reading
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Tagged Radio Spada
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Washington’s Birthday Roundup
–In the TLS, backpage columnist M.C. is reminded of the BBC television quiz show Take It or Leave It. Devised by Brigid Brophy, this quiz show ran from 1964 until 1971 on BBC Two. “Preference and prejudice towards books and … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, comedy.co.uk, Evening Standard, Hanya Yanagihara, MercatorNet.com, Michael Mills, New Yorker, Particia Lockwood, The Critic, TLS
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–In the current issue of Commentary magazine, essayist Joseph Epstein has an article entitled “Good Grief.” This is a fairly light discussion of the heavy subjects of grieving and bereavement. In the course of the discussion, this appears: With Jessica … Continue reading →