Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh

Plashy fen and leprechaun-flavoured wine

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh scored a twofer in last week’s Telegraph with citations relating to both nature and food writing. On March 30, Waugh’s parody of nature writing in Scoop is cited by Robert Macfarlane in an interview as an example of what that … Continue reading →

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D.J.Taylor Cites Waugh to Rebut Fears of E-Book Threat to Novel

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In a recent Independent on Sunday column (“Ebook apartheid: Fay Weldon calls on writers to adapt their style for technology,” 8 March 2015), critic and novelist D.J. Taylor addresses an argument by fellow novelist Fay Weldon. At the Bath Literary … Continue reading →

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Ishmaelia vs. Azania

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Last month, the Independent ran a column naming what it deemed to be the 10 best fictional countries created by writers. None of Waugh’s efforts made the first cut, but the response was so great that a second round was published, … Continue reading →

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Max Hastings Watches the BBC’s Face-to-Face Interviews

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In this week’s Spectator, Max Hastings, former Daily Telegraph editor, comments on his viewing of DVDs of the BBC’s Face to Face interviews, which he had recently been sent as a gift. The recordings have been circulation since 2009, and it … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and Catch-22

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Today’s Guardian adds Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 to its list of the 100 Best Novels, joining Scoop which was named in an earlier article. The article explains that Robert Gottlieb, the book’s editor at Simon & Schuster, tried to obtain … Continue reading →

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The Tablet Celebrates 175 Years

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The UK-based Roman Catholic weekly paper The Tablet is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year. Among the events related to the celebration that may be of interest to our readers are a literary festival at Birmingham in June and a lecture at … Continue reading →

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Penguin Celebrates 80th Birthday Without Waugh

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Penguin Books is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year by publishing 80 books in a Little Black Classics series. These consist of short (c. 60 pp.) extracts from its Penguin Classics series. Conspicuous by its absence is any extract from … Continue reading →

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Cousin Jasper Cited in Cambridge Varsity

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Cambridge University student paper, Varsity, has cited Jasper Ryder’s advice to his cousin Charles on how to succeed at Oxford: “You want either a first or a fourth. There is no value in anything between. Time spent on a … Continue reading →

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Two Waugh Letters on Offer

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Two Evelyn Waugh letters will be offered for sale at a Bonhams auction to be held on 18 March. One, to Stella Morrah, expresses regret that she will be unable, due to illness, to accompany him to a dance that evening. … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Greene

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In a Guardian column earlier this week, Robert McCrum cites Evelyn Waugh in support of his somewhat eccentric choice of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as one of the 100 greatest novels in English. McCrum admits Greene has … Continue reading →

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