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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh to Feature in Great Lives Series
BBC Radio 4 has announced a new episode in its “Great Lives” series that will feature a panel discussion of Evelyn Waugh. Here is the announcement: Comedian Russell Kane nominates the novelist Evelyn Waugh, with help from literary critic Ann … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Radio Programs
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, BBC Radio 4, Great Lives, Russell Kane
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Bullying in the House?
In the 1960 BBC interview of Evelyn Waugh in the Face to Face series, presenter John Freeman posed a series of questions about Waugh’s career at Oxford. Among them are these relating to his children: Q. Are any of your … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Christ Church, Guardian
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Travel Writers and Catholic Writers
In a long essay in The Smart Set (an online cultural magazine based in Philadelphia), Thomas Swick traces his career as a travel writer. In doing so, he also recounts the history of that literary genre in the 20th century. … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic writing, Jonathan Raban, The Smart Set, Thomas Swick, TLS, Travel Writing
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Books: Waugh and Trump and Amis
This week’s New York Review of Books has as its lead review a book by Michael Lewis called The Fifth Risk. This is is about governmental dysfunction in the present USA administration and is reviewed by Fintan O’Toole, who opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Ben Macintyre, Boston Globe, Frances Donaldson, Kingsley Amis, New York Review of Books
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Oxford Trails and Roman Holidays
The Oxford Mail has reported the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibit No Offence: Exploring LGBTQ+ Histories and notes an adjunct: …the exhibition traverses epochs and continents, deftly showing the numerous ways in which LGBTQ+ lives and loves have been expressed across cultures … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ashmolean Museum, James Delingpole, LGBTQ+ trail, Oxford Mail, Spectator
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Waugh Event in Milan
The British Council in Milan has announced a presentation relating to Evelyn Waugh later this week. Here are the details: On occasion of the 2018 edition of Bookcity, the British Council Milan, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Conferences, Events
Tagged British Council Milan
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Waugh’s Signature, Favorite Dublin Pub, Lost in Translation, Etc.
–Duncan McLaren has posted a short note on Waugh’s change in his signature at an early stage in his career. This is posted on his website under WAUGH BITES. McLaren is able to triangulate that change in the early 1930’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Crisis magazine, Dincan McLaren, Dublin pubs
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Martin Stannard to Lecture at Durham
Durham University has announced that Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh’s biographer and co-executive editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, will lecture there early next year. His topic will be “Evelyn Waugh, America and Catholicism”. This will probably touch on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Lectures
Tagged Durham University, Martin Stannard, Ushaw Lecture Series
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Post-Election Roundup
Having recovered from the news deluge of the USA midterm elections, we can now return to coverage of matters Wavian: –The big story in British journalism earlier this week was Paul Dacre’s valedictory address as editor of the Daily Mail, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Herald (Chicago), Daily Mail, History Today, Image, kedgeree, Paul Dacre, Radio Spada
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