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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Waugh Reading on BBC Radio 4
Humorist Craig Brown has included a reading from Waugh for his appearance on the BBC Radio 4 series With Great Pleasure. The program asks each participant to choose favorite book passages from their lifetime of reading. Among Brown’s choices is … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Craig Brown, With Great Pleasure
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First Edition of Brideshead to be Auctioned
Today’s papers report that a rare pre-publication copy of Brideshead Revisited belonging to the late Duchess of Devonshire (born Deborah Mitford) will be auctioned by Southeby’s. Here is the story from the Guardian: The items include a true first edition of … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox
Tagged Deborah Mitford, Financial Times, Guardian, Southeby's
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Publisher of Waugh’s Diaries and Letters Dies
The Daily Telegraph has announced the death at the age of 96 of George Weidenfeld, who published Waugh’s Diaries and Letters. According to the Telegraph, Weidenfeld sometimes said that [Vladimir Nabokov’s] Lolita (1959, a “cautionary tale”) and [Mary McCarthy’s] The Group … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Letters
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Encounter, George Weidenfeld, Noblesse Oblige, U and Non-U
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Waugh’s Advice on Writing
Terry Teachout, drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and critic-at-large of Commentary, has posted on his artsblog a quote from Waugh on the practice of writing: Never send off any piece of writing the moment it is finished. Put it … Continue reading
The Loved One Named in Best-of-Century Film List
The filmblog Zekefilm has compiled a list of notable films from the past hundred years dating back to 1915. It names a film released in the mid year of each decade. The idea seems to be to offer a representative and interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Tony Richardson, Zekefilm
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Aloysius in the News
Sebastian’s Aloysius made the news twice this week. In the bookblog InterestingLiterature, he is mentioned in connection with John Betjeman’s poem “Archibald.” This poem is among Betjeman’s 10 best (i.e., most readable) poems, as selected by the blog: Archibald Ormsby-Gore was, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Aloysius, Archibald, Guardian, Interesting Literature, John Betjeman
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Waugh’s Encounter
It has long been known that Encounter magazine, a leading cultural journal during the cold war, was secretly backed by funds from the CIA. This information came out during the protest movement in the Vietnam War period, and the magazine’s … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Encounter, National Post, Robert Fulford
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Source of Azania
A recent debate started on the Facebook page of a South African politician has migrated to the op ed pages of the newspapers. Earlier this month, Tito Mboweni, a retired Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, proposed that the name … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Scoop
Tagged Andrew Donaldson, Azania, Christopher Hitchens, Weekend Argus
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Waugh’s Travel Diary
A book has been published that is made up of travel entries by various writers in diaries, journals and letters. These are arranged by the day and month on which they are written so that the reader may select a travel … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Miscellaneous
Tagged A Traveller's Year, Daily Mail, Marcus Berkmann, travel diaries
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Waugh, Boyd and Manning
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged AFR, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, William Boyd
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