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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Roundup: Travel Book Revival?
–A new book about travel writing has been published. Ever hopefully, a new look for a possible revival of the genre is undertaken by Tim Hannigan in his book The Travel Writing Tribe. This is reviewed by Noo Saro-Wiwa and … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Non-fiction, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Above the Law, Sydney Morning Herald, The Letterpress Project, The Times, TLS, Travel Writing
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Ronald Knox Revival Imminent?
An article in the Catholic Herald (“Rediscovering Ronnie”) suggests that a revival of interest in the writings of Waugh’s close friend and biographical subject Ronald Knox may be imminent. This is written by the Herald’s contributing editor Serenhedd James based … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox
Tagged Catholic Herald, limericks, Serenhedd James
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Mid-May Roundup
–Nicholas Lezard, writing for the New Statesman opens his article on cold weather angst with this: I was reading Evelyn Waugh’s first travel book, Labels, which for some inexplicable reason I had never got round to before, and I was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, New Statesman, The Imaginative Conservative, The Spectator, The Times
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Annual Waugh Lecture (More)
As noted in a previous post, the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture was delivered at Lancing College earlier this week. The talk was given by Jeremy Tomlinson, a former master of the house where Waugh lived as a student. It was … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Helena, Lancing, Lectures
Tagged Jeremy Tomlinson
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Across the Years and into a Documentary
Earlier this month, PBS broadcast a three-part Ken Burns documentary on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. At a total of nearly 6 hours, this threatened to be a bit overextended and one feared another “Baseball”. But it started … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Television Programs
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, PBS, The Tablet, Time magazine, William Faulkner
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Waugh’s Travel Writing
Biographer Jeffrey Meyers has written another in his series of articles about British travel writers in The Article, an online magazine. Waugh was prominently mentioned in two previous articles–those dealing with Robert Byron and Wilfred Thesiger. These are described in … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged British Guiana, Jeffrey Meyers, The Article
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St Patrick’s Day Roundup
–RAI Radio 3 has posted a podcast relating to the new Italian translation of A Little Learning. Here is a translation of the introduction: Let’s not expect the usual self-glorification of the middle-aged writer: Waugh takes us first to get to … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies, Waugh Family
Tagged Daisy Waugh, JSTOR Daily, RAI Radio 3, SoloLibri.net, YouTube
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Wilfred Thesiger Profiled in “The Article”
Biographer Jeffrey Meyers has written a profile of pre-eminent British travel writer Wilfred Thesiger. This is posted in the online literary journal The Article. Meyers begins by recalling his 1979 interview of Thesiger in the latter’s London apartment. He notes … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers, Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, The Article, Wilfred Thesiger
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Italian Version of A Little Learning
Evelyn Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning will come out in an Italian edition next week. This is entitled Autobiografia di un perdigiorno (Autobiography of an Idler). Here is a translated excerpt of a review in Il Giornali by Stenio Solinas … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Il Giornali, Italian Translation, Mario Fortunato, Stenio Solinas
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