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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
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
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Humo(u)r
Tagged Taki Theodoracopulos, Taki's Magazine
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Goodbye to More of All That
In the Guardian’s ongoing series of the “100 Best Nonfiction Books,” its latest selection is Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves’ memoir of his WWI experiences and early life. The Guardian describes the book’s depiction of the war as an: irreverent, comic, and … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Best 100 Nonfiction Books, Guardian, Robert Graves, Robert McCrum
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Grammarian Names Waugh Favorite Writer
British writer and grammarian Lynne Truss has named Evelyn Waugh her favorite writer. This is in an interview in today’s “One Minute With…” column in the i Newspaper, as reposted on PressReader. Truss is probably best known for her 2003 book Eats, Shoots … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged i (newspaper), Lynne Truss, Michael Maloney
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Waugh’s Books Ranked in Fashion Magazine Lists
Stylist magazine is a weekly print publication with free distribution within the UK. It has a books column which specializes in listing books in categories thought to be of interest to or likely to amuse its audience of young women. A recent … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Stylist magazine
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