Category Archives: The Loved One

Christopher Hitchens’ Last Words on Waugh

The latest New English Review contains a review of the posthumous collection of Christopher Hitchens’ essays entitled, And yet… While there are no essays or reviews devoted to the subject of Evelyn Waugh, he does get a mention: …one of the … Continue reading

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Waugh Novels Recommended on Valentine’s Day

The editors of The American Scholar put together a list of books for Valentine’s Day reading. The idea was to “celebrate the whole history of love—even the ugly bits—with these 14 novels of romance gone awry.” Among those selected was … Continue reading

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Happier Hunting Ground (U.K. Branch)

The Daily Telegraph has run an article on the history and current status of pet cemeteries and crematoria in the U.K. A cite to Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One, which prominently described one such institution in Southern California, was perhaps inevitable. … Continue reading

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The Loved One Named in Best-of-Century Film List

The filmblog Zekefilm has compiled a list of notable films from the past hundred years dating back to 1915.  It names a film released in the mid year of each decade. The idea seems to be to offer a representative and interesting … Continue reading

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Waugh’s Agony Aunt

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the “Dear Abby” newspaper column, the Daily Telegraph has compiled a list of the most notable agony aunts in literature, TV and film. Waugh qualifies for a character from The Loved One: GURU BRAHMIN … Continue reading

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50th Anniversary Presentation of The Loved One

Two Los Angeles organizations earlier this month jointly sponsored a 50th anniversary showing of the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s The Loved One. This took place at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on 7 December 2015. The sponsors were the American Cinematheque … Continue reading

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Waugh in the LARB

The Los Angeles Review of Books contains references to Waugh in two of this months’ issues. The first is in a review of a book entitled Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David Ulin, a transplanted New Yorker, … Continue reading

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Waugh and the Jesuits

The Jesuit magazine America runs an article in its latest issue about a recent conference on the Roman Catholic Literary Imagination. One of the participants, Mark Bosco, S.J., used the occasion to look back over the 20th century to identify writers … Continue reading

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Waugh-Era Map of “Whispering Glades” on Internet

Los Angeles Magazine has republished a 1950 tourist map of Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, CA from the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. This was Whispering Glades in Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One. A brief history of … Continue reading

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NYPL Marks Waugh’s Birthday

The New York Public Library has marked Evelyn Waugh’s upcoming birthday (28 October 1903) with an essay on The Loved One which also compares the Hollywood novels of other writers. The essay is by Meredith Mann who works in the library’s Collection … Continue reading

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