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Category Archives: Letters
“Death to Picasso”
Columnist, editor of The New Ctiterion and scourge of academic political correctness, Roger Kimball, has cited Waugh in an article in the conservative/libertarian weblog PJ Media. This was in the context of a “PC” debate that arose from recent unrest in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Articles, Letters, Twitter
Tagged Pablo Picasso, PJ Media, political correctness, Roger Kimball, University of Tennessee
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Death in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Magazine has recently republished a 2011 article by Ben Ehrenreich which has “Death in L.A.” forming part of its subtitle. That is not far off the title of the German translation for Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One (Tod in Hollywood). Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ben Ehrenreich, Forest Lawn, Jessica Mitford, Los Angeles Magazine
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Waugh and the McCarthyites
A blogger posting on a community news weblog for West Berkshire has been inspired by reading The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh to pronounce her assessment of Waugh’s life and work (Penny Post, 29 Sept-9 Oct). After declaring Waugh a … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Letters
Tagged Joseph McCarthy, Penny Post, Spectator, William F Buckley Jr
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Quick Delivery of A Little Order
A blogger living in London (blogging as Dickon Edwards) has posted an experience of brick and mortar booksellers becoming more competitive with their online counterparts: There are many reasons to buy books from bookshops rather than Amazon, but one is … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, London, The Holy Places, When the Going Was Good
Tagged A Little Order, Dickon Edwards, Donat Gallagher
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Waugh, Catch-22 and the Demented Governess
Many of us will have read Waugh’s 1961 letter to Nina Bourne, who worked for US publisher Simon & Schuster. In the letter, Waugh politely and very humorously declines to give them a blurb promoting their new book Catch-22, the first novel … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters, World War II
Tagged Catch-22, Nina Bourne, Robert Gottlieb
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Waugh Plaque Used in Property Promotion
A North London property promotion site has made prominent use of a photo of the English Heritage Blue Plaque on Evelyn Waugh’s family home (145 North End Road, NW11 7HT). This is Ham & High Properties promotional material for sales in … Continue reading
Posted in Hampstead, Letters, Waugh Family
Tagged English Heritage Blue Plaque, Golders Green, Ham & High Properties
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Daphne Fielding, Writer
A book blog called The Neglected Books Page has posted an article on the first book written by Waugh’s good friend and correspondent Daphne Fielding (1904-97). This is the first volume of her memoirs entitled Mercury Presides that was published … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Daphne Fielding, Neglected Books Page
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Waugh and Hemingway and “Beat-up Old Bastards”
An article in The Huffington Post earlier this week discusses Ernest Hemingway’s claims to have killed 122 “Krauts” during WWII and compares that claim with those of Chris Kyle (subject of the autobiography and film American Sniper) to have killed 160 enemy … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged American Sniper, Ernest Hemingway, The Huffington Post
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Leicester Schedules Waugh Events for Literary Festival
The Literary Leicester Festival has announced an ambitious schedule of Waugh-related events on Friday, November 18. A panel on textual editing will meet at 3-4pm at which Prof Martin Stannard and Drs Barbara Cooke and Sharon Ouditt will discuss issues … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Diaries, Festivals, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Literary Leicester Festival, Martin Stannard, Philip Eade
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