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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Weekend Roundup of Waviana
An Athens art exhibit has been titled “The Unseen Hook” (Το αόρατο αγκίστρι). The name is taken from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. As explained in an article on a Greek website: The “invisible hook” is what binds us to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Alma Gellery/Athens, Durham University, Financial Times, Joe Dunthorne, Matthew Richardson, National Catholic Register, Strategic Culture Foundation
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Precocious Waughs Reviewed in Italian Press
Aridea Fezzi Price writing in Il Giornale, an Italian language newspaper published in Milan, reviews Precocious Waughs. This is one of the first volumes published in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project and the first of 12 to be included … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Aridea Fezzi Price, Il Giornale
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Pinfold Redux: Muriel Spark Centenary
Articles are appearing in advance of the centenary of novelist Muriel Spark which will be observed next Thursday (1 February). Scottish novelist Allan Massie has written an article in the i Newspaper in which he recalls her career and his … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Conferences, Letters, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Allan Massie, iNewspaper, Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark, Patricia Waugh, The Tablet, Universoty of Glasgow
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Andrew Marr and Ma Meyrick
BBC4 is rebroadcasting Andrew Marr’s 2009 documentary series The Making of Modern Britain. Yesterday, this reached Episode 4: “Having a Ball.” This covered the 1920s, and both opened and closed with a party. Marr began by mixing a drink he … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Marr, Bath and Bottle Party, BBC, Bright Young Things, Ma Meyrick, The 'Twenties
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Waugh Letter to French Translator
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 Jean Dauven, Peter Harrington Booksellers, translations
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Two Hits and Two Misses
The staff at The American Conservative magazine are asked to contribute to a regular column called “TAC Bookshelf” describing and rating their current reading. Andrew J Bacevich devoted his latest contribution to Evelyn Waugh. He considered Sword of Honour a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Andrew J Bacevich, Dennis Cooper, The American Conservative, unfinished novels
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Midwinter Roundup: Worldwide Waugh
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 "En Compostela", Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Laura Shapiro, Richard Burton, The Times, Vdare
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Evelyn Waugh, Smoking and Contemplation
An essay on The American Conservative’s website, entitled “Why George Will is Wrong about Smokers”, opens with this: Smokers, George Will says, lack “common sense.” In a late December opinion column in the Washington Post, Will declared, “Filling one’s lungs … Continue reading
Posted in Chattels & Movables, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Casey Chalk, Havana cigars, smoking, The American Conservative, The Times
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Waugh Features in Podcast on “Narrative and Religion”
A recent podcast in the series Conversations with Tyler involves an interview with New York Times columnist Russ Douthat. The series is sponsored by George Mason University and the interviewer is Tyler Cowen but the date and the venue are … Continue reading
Three Views of Brideshead
Blogger-philosophers seem to be spending the winter months reading and thinking about the religious implications of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. On the conservative weblog counter-currents.com, there is a two-part review of a book first published in 1947 by theologian Alan … Continue reading
