Category Archives: Vile Bodies

Early TV Adaptations: Vile Bodies and Put Out More Flags

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

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 | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Haphazard Dust-bins

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Spanish novelist Imma Monsó has written an article inspired by the publication in Spanish of US novelist James Salter’s The Art of Fiction. Salter’s book is based on a series of 2014 lectures he gave at the University of Virginia … Continue reading →

Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Haphazard Dust-bins

Roundup: Vile Media

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The magazine GQ India had an article about Asian-based novels satirizing Asian-based rich people. This opens with a reference to one of Waugh’s novels: It is an unassailable truth that where there is money, a thinly veiled roman-à-clef documenting the … Continue reading →

Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Roundup: Vile Media

Waugh Watering Holes in the News

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Two pubs associated with Evelyn Waugh’s life in the 1920-30s have recently been in the news: the Abingdon Arms in Beckley, Oxon., and the Fair View Inn in Llanddulas, North Wales. In  one case the news is good, in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Remote People, Vile Bodies, Wales | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Waugh Watering Holes in the News

Hard Cases: Drugs and Reality

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spanish magazine Historia y Vida based in Barcelona has an article this month about Brenda Dean Paul. She was a member of the bright young people, and the story by Eva Melús connects her with Waugh’s novels of the … Continue reading →

Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Hard Cases: Drugs and Reality

A Diary, a Legacy, and a First Edition

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The long-running “Londoner’s Diary” column of the Evening Standard has been relaunched as “The Londoner” and has a new author, Charlotte Edwardes, who writes her introductory article with a nod to Evelyn Waugh and several of his friends: On my … Continue reading →

Posted in Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Interviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Vile Bodies: Two Wins and a Loss

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Esquire magazine has published a list of what it considers the “24 Funniest Books Ever Written” as compiled by Will Hersey. At number 6 is Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930): …Evelyn Waugh brilliantly, hilariously, unflinchingly but always humanely pinions a society … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Céline, Muriel Spark and Lloyd Cole

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Frederic Raphael is still best known for the TV adaptation of his own 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes, which is often compared with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the popular and critical success … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies, World War II | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Céline, Muriel Spark and Lloyd Cole

Waugh Letter to French Translator

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

London booksellers Peter Harrington have on offer a 1946 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a  translator who was interested in producing a French version of Vile Bodies. This is Jean Dauven who apparently had asked Waugh a number of questions … Continue reading →

Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters, Vile Bodies | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Waugh Letter to French Translator

Midwinter Roundup: Worldwide Waugh

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in two recent German newspaper articles: In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andrea Diener writes a column noting the domination by women of the Guardian’s fiction bestseller list–only one man made the list: Haruki Murakami at #6. … Continue reading →

Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Midwinter Roundup: Worldwide Waugh