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Category Archives: Vile Bodies
Waugh in the News
Several papers have alluded to Evelyn Waugh or his works in recent stories: The Irish Times has an article in its “London Letter” column inspired by an interview with David Hockney in which the artist expressed his acquiescence in if not outrught support … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bild, Brexit, Daily Telegraph, Gay Times, Guardian, Irish Times
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In the Beginning was the Waugh
Journalists and bloggers are making a practice of opening stories with quotes from or cites to the works of Evelyn Waugh. Here are two notable recent examples: The Guardian in a story about today’s match between England and Wales in … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, The Loved One, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged A Reality-Based Community, Guardian, Six Nations tournament, W H Auden
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Hat Trick for Waugh in The Spectator
This week’s Spectator features three articles mentioning Evelyn Waugh. The first is in a memorial for Tara Palmer-Tomkinson who died this week at the age of 45. The magazine reprints an article she wrote which appeared in the 27 July … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cosmo Landesman, Independent (Ireland), Kirsty Blake Knox, Ludovic Kennedy, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tara Parker-Tomkinson, The Spectator
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Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Living
Novelist Adam Thirlwell has written an article in The Nation on Henry Green’s early novel Living (1929), citing, inter alia, the importance of Evelyn Waugh to the novel’s success: [Green] had written one of the most radical novels of his era. It … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Adam Thirlwell, Bookforum, Henry Green, Sarah Nicole Prickett, The Nation
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Emma Tennant (1937-2017): Latter-day BYP
Novelist Emma Tennant has died at the age of 79. She was a prolific writer, leaving an oeuvre of over 45 books. She was also founder and editor of a 1970s literary magazine known as Bananas. Although she wrote in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Emma Tennant, Stephen Tennant, The Times newspaper
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Blanche, Hat, Malpractice and Seal
Author Elisa Rolle, who chronicles the lives and travels of notable members of the LGBT community, has posted some of her reviews and ramblings relating to Brian Howard, Waugh’s contemporary from Oxford days. These miscellaneous excerpts apear to have been first published … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brian Howard, Elisa Rolle, LGBT Community
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Vile Bodies Again Cited as One of Funniest Books
Esquire (Middle East edition) has published its list of the top 20 funniest books less than a week after the Guardian issued its choices for the top 14. See earlier post. Vile Bodies is on both lists, joining Three Men in … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Esquire magazine
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Waugh Among the Funniest
The Guardian asked writers to name the funniest book they had read. The results are in today’s issue where the choices of 14 of those polled are reprinted. Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies was selected by another comic novelist David Lodge … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Society, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged David Lodge, Guardian, Jonathan Coe
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Party Time: Vile Bodies and Bruno Hat
The anticipation of New Year’s Eve parties inspired media references to Vile Bodies. In an entertainment news blog (Salon.com), several memorable party scenes from films were recalled. The opening scene from Stephen Fry’s film adaptation of the novel (retitled as Bright … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bruno Hat, Jot101, Patrick Balfour, Salon.com, Tages-Anzeiger
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Author Richard Adams Dies at 96
Richard Adams who is best known for his first novel, Watership Down, has died at the age of 96. The book is about rabbits and was derived from stories he had told his children, but it was also based on his own experience … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, International Business Times, New York Times, Orlando Sentinel, Richard Adams, Watership Down
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