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Category Archives: The Loved One
Roundup: Waugh in Publishing
Amazon is offering a new book by London-based playwright and singer-songwriter Roy Smiles. This is entitled Waugh in Winter and is the text of a play which is built around Waugh’s persona. According to the book description: Waugh in Winter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Chicago Review Press, Dans le manoir aux livres, Editions Robert Laffont, Elsa Lanchester, Irish Times, Roy Smiles, The Scarlet Woman, Town and Country
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Waugh Underground
The digital/print magazine Mental Floss has reposted a 2016 story about Waugh’s contribution to the successful HBO TV series from the early 2000’s entitled Six Feet Under. This told the stories of a family in the funeral business. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged America, E M Forster, Esquire, Mental Floss, Six Feet Under
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Roundup: A Legacy, a Plaque, 2 Lists and a Mystery
British Heritage Travel Magazine has published a profile of Alexander Waugh entitled “A Legacy Revisited”. This is by Stephen G and is datelined 29 March 2018. It opens with a brief summary of the ongoing difficulties of securing and restoring … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Alexander Waugh, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, London, Men at Arms, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged British Heritage Travel Magazine, Canonbury Society Newsletter, Entertainment Weekly, Gay Kamasutra, Hollywood novels, Islington, ShortList.com, war novels
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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead in the News
Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel The Sparsholt Affair is being released in the USA next week and is reviewed in the Boston Globe. The Globe’s reviewer, Priscilla Gilman, as with several in the UK, notes the book’s conections with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, BBC, Boston Globe, CBC, Meg Wolitzer, MSN, The Atlantic, The Guardian
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Weekend Roundup: French Connections
In a Times review of Nina Caplan’s new book The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, reviewer Michael Henderson includes this as his opening: “O for a beaker full of the warm south!” Keats, who died in Rome, gave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Cyril Connolly, Financial Times, France, Maclean's Magazine, Sonia Orwell, The Times, Winston Churchill
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Greatest Writer of “Our” Generation ?
Literary critic, novelist and publisher Dr Stoddard Martin has written a review of Philip Eade’s biography which he turns into an assessment of Evelyn Waugh’s career and legacy. This is entitled “Class Act” and appears in The Quarterly Review, an … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Tagged Graham Greene, Philip Eade, Somerset Maugham, Stoddard Martin, The Quarterly Review
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Weekend Roundup–Friends at a Distance: Mitford/Waugh Letters
An article on the books blog The Captive Reader is effectively a new review of The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh first published in 1996. This is written by “Claire of Vancouver” and opens with this: Mitford and … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Letters, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged catholicism.org, Latin Mass, Lucy Beckett, Muriel Spark, Nancy Mitford, Robert Hickson, The Irish Times, TLS
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West Coast Waugh
The Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) has a review of Acorn TV’s DVD version of the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall. After a background of the novel’s writing and summary of the story, reviewer Brian Bromberger concludes with this: Director … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Acorn TV, Brian Bromberger, Caitlin Doughty, Robert McCrum, The Bay Area Reporter, The Spectator
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Waviana in the Book Trade
A Baltimore dealer has on offer an original Hollywood film script of Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One as written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. This is Royal Books on 25th St. This is a July 1964 draft of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Bibliophilia, Film, Items for Sale, The Loved One
Tagged Cambridge University Library Soecial Colections, John Gielgud, Royal Books, Terry Southern, William Burges
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Waugh’s Helena at the Museum of the Bible
A new institution has opened in Washington, DC. This is the Museum of the Bible. It is spread over eight floors of a purpose built structure and is reviewed in the the conservative journal Washington Free Beacon by Micah Meadowcraft. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One, Theater
Tagged GlamAdelaide.com.au, Guardian, Irish Times, Stuff.co.nz, The Museum of the Bible, Washington Free Beacon
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