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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: Equal Opportunity Racist
The conservative website Heat Street has published an article by UK journalist Constance Watson defending Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief against charges frequently leveled at it for its racist remarks, citing several from Twitter as examples. As she points out, the book … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Twitter, Waugh Family
Tagged Constance Watson, Heat Street
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The Loved One Declared Favorite Novella
Hatchards book shop on Piccadilly has declared Waugh’s The Loved One to be its favorite novella: Over the last eight months Hatchards has run a campaign to discover which novella of the last 200 years is our customers favourite. We are … Continue reading
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Tagged Hatchards, Novella
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Waugh Books Feature in Best of Year Listings
UK newspapers have begun listing their best of the year selections, and books about Waugh feature in several of them. Philip Eade’s biography was named in numerous papers. The Financial Times included the book in its selections of best literary non-fiction: … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Douglas Patey, Financial Times, Guardian, Philip Eade, Sunday Times
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Scoop Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this week rebroadcast a two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This was written by Jeremy Front who has also adapted for radio Decline and Fall (2016), Sword of Honour (2013) and Brideshead Revisited (2003). The Scoop dramatization was first … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Front
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Feast Day of Edmund Campion Marked
Yesterday was the feast day in the Roman Catholic Church for St Edmund Campion. It was marked on two Roman Catholic websites with quotations from Waugh’s biography of Campion first published in 1935. On the website of the Association of Catholic Women … Continue reading
David Pryce-Jones Reviews Eade Biography (Updated)
David Pryce-Jones, son of author Alan Pryce-Jones who was Waugh’s near contemporary at Oxford but not close friend, has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh in the National Review. He begins with an apology for having written an unfavorable review … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged David Pryce-Jones, National Review, Philip Eade
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Waugh Novel on Winter Reading List
The news webpage Business Insider has published a list of recommended books by British authors for reading on the long, cold winter nights now being experienced rather early this year in the UK. Among the 15 books selected, about half are … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop
Tagged Business Insider, winter reading
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Waugh and the “Inner Toff”
Author and journalist James Delingpole, writing in this week’s Spectator in an essay entitled “How I learned to embrace my inner toff,” cites Waugh as a precedent in defense of his reaction to certain recent changes in life style. Delingpole acquired … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Twitter
Tagged James Delingpole, The Spectator
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Waugh Cited in Announcement of Erle Stanley Gardner Book
The New York Times in a recent books column has announced the publication of a long forgotten book by Erle Stanley Gardner. This was written in 1939 as the second in his series of books featuring the detectives Bertha Cool and Donald … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Newsletter, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Erle Stanley Gardner, New York Times
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Tony Last on Fifth Avenue
In a recent post on his weblog, political commentator, enemy of political correctness and general iconoclast Taki Theodoracopulos (sometime contributor to the Spectator) has conjured up the image of Tony Last from Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust among the anti-Trump protestors … Continue reading
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Tagged Taki Theodoracopulos, Taki's Magazine
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