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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Colossus of Snobbery
Critic and novelist D J Taylor has written a book inspired by William Thackeray entitled The New Book of Snobs, to be published later this month. An excerpt appears in the Daily Mail. This deals mostly with Taylor’s account of his own … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Daily Mail, postcodes, snobbery
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Oxford Hostelries Commemorate Waugh
According to a recent posting on travel blog Trip Advisor, there is a hotel bedroom named for Evelyn Waugh at the Head of the River. This is a pub and hotel located on St Aldate’s at Folly Bridge in Oxford. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Oxford, Sightings, Sword of Honour
Tagged Anthony Burgess, Eynsham Hall, Head of the River, Paul Doyle, Weblogs
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Anthony Blanche and Patrick Leigh Fermor
The current Literary Review carries a review by Harry Mount of the collected letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor. These were just published in the UK under the title Dashing for the Post. Among Leigh Fermor’s correspondents were several of Waugh’s close … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Harry mount, Literary Review, Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Orwell Society Visits Waugh Site
A member of the Orwell Society has posted a report of a visit made by a group of its members to North London sites associated with George Orwell. The visit started in Hampstead with a stop at the site of … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Hampstead, London, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Sightings
Tagged Canonbury Square, George Orwell, Orwell Society
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Et in Cantabrigia Ego
A Cambridge University student-sponsored news blog (The Tab) has published interviews with several incoming students. One seems to have gotten her ancient universities a bit mixed: Holly, History, Pembroke. “I applied to Cambridge under the illusion that I would have the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Oxford
Tagged Cambridge University, The Tab
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Curbed @ Forest Lawn
The real estate blog network, Curbed, has issued its latest Pocket Guide to Los Angeles. This may be of interest to those of you planning to attend the Evelyn Waugh Conference next spring at the Huntington Library near Pasadena. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Conferences, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Curbed Pocket Guide to Los Angeles, Forest Lawn
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Lt Hooper Enters US Politics
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Tim Kaine, Democratic candidate for Vice President is likened to Waugh’s character Lt Hooper from his novel Brideshead Revisited: Though a bit character, [Hooper] plays an indispensible role. In his unquestioning embrace of the dominant pieties of his … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Tim Kaine, Wall Street Journal, William McGurn
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Bloggers List Waugh
Waugh and his works have appeared in several recent blogs. In listverse he was named in a list of “10 Pop Culture Moments We Owe To Animals.” That seems unlikely but here it is: Evelyn Waugh’s Suicide Attempt Was Ruined By … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Sightings
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Jellyfish, Weblogs
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BBC Rebroadcasts Brideshead Radio Adaptation
BBC Radio 4 Extra will rebroadcast the 4-episode series of Brideshead Revisited starting tomorrow (Tuesday, 4 October) at 10am. Each episode is 1 hour, and they will be broadcast on successive days at the same time each day until the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, Jeremy Front
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“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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