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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh, Cigar Lover
USA Today recently ran a story about renewed interest in the cigar industry following restoration of relations between the U.S. and Cuba. The story looks forward to the day when Cuban cigars will again become routinely available to U.S. smokers. In an effort … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Havana cigars, USA Today
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Hetton Abbey Cited in Gilbert Scott Article
Architectural historian and critic Gavin Stamp refers to Hetton Abbey in his recent Spectator review of a biography of George Gilbert Scott: Briefing his illustrator for the jacket of A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh asked for a country house in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Letters, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Art Deco, Gavin Stamp, George Gilbert Scott, J.D.M. Harvey, Paul Dobraszczyk, Senate House, Victorian Architecture
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Spectator Article Reprises the Perroquet
In this week’s Spectator, Bruce Anderson calls up scenes from Black Mischief to describe the ideal nightclub. This is the Perroquet in Debra Dowa: I thought about Black Mischief while giving dinner to delightful young Alex in a more conventional club … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Bruce Anderson, Night Clubs, Spectator
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Waugh Cited in Latest Cameron Dispute
In today’s Guardian, there is a discussion of the allegations that David Cameron was a member of a secret Oxford club called the Piers Gaveston Society. It was founded in 1977 and named for Edward’s II’s lover. These stories have been … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged Bullingdon Club, David Cameron, Guardian, Oxford clubs, Piers Gaveston Society
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Debut Novel Inspired By Brideshead
Kate Scelsa, whose first novel has just been published, explains in yesterday’s Guardian how her book was inspired by Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. She was given the book by a college housemate but read it only several years later. As a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Guardian, Kate Scelsa
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BBC Does Longleat
The BBC has produced a documentary series on Longleat House and its owners. This is All Change at Longleat and it focuses on the current Marquess of Bath and his son, Ceawlin (aka Viscount Weymouth). Lord Bath is not a newcomer to publicity having … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Documentaries, Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daphne Fielding, Henry Bath, Longleat House
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Joshua Cohen Awarded Copy of Scoop
In a recent review in the New York Times, novelist and critic Joshua Cohen went a bit over the top and has been called out for it in the Weekly Standard. Cohen is best known for his novels, including Witz (2010) and … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop
Tagged Daily Mail, Joshua Cohen, Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times, Weekly Standard
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V&A Reunites Brideshead
Last night at the Victoria & Albert Museum there was a panel discussion relating to the Granada TV 1980s production of Brideshead Revisited. The panel included actors Diana Quick (Julia Flyte) and Nicholas Grace (Anthony Blanche) as well as Derek … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Television
Tagged Derek Granger, Diana Quick, Giles Ramsay, Granada TV, Nickolas Grace, V&A Museum
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Waugh and Psychedelia
This week’s Spectator reviews a book by Rob Chapman about the history of psychedelic drugs. The title is Psychedelia and Other Colours . The book includes a consideration of the contribution made by novelist Aldous Huxley to the popularization of drugs … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, Psychedelic Drugs, The Spectator magazine
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Travel-Writing Geezers
Yesterday’s South China Morning Post reviews a collection of travel writing by those over 60: To Oldly Go. The reviewer separates the writers into those who find travel wonderful, those who take themselves too seriously and those “who have gradually become world-weary, curmudgeonly … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People, When the Going Was Good
Tagged South China Morning Post, To Oldly Go, Travel Writing
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