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Category Archives: Festivals
Alexander Waugh to Chair Panel at Literary Leicester Festival
A panel has been announced for the Literary Leicester Festival on the subject “Remembering Alexander Chancellor (1940-2017).” He was editor and contributor to several journals, including most notably The Spectator. The panel will he chaired by Alexander Waugh, his son-in-law … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Festivals, Humo(u)r
Tagged Alexander Chancellor, Literary Leicester Festival, University of Leicester
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Interview at Castle Howard
The Sunday Times published an interview earlier this month of Victoria Howard. She is described as the new chatelaine of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire where both the TV and cinema versions of Brideshead Revisited were filmed. She refuses to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Eleanor Doughty, Sunday Times, Victoria Howard
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Evelyn Waugh at the National Trust, Edinburgh Festival and Houston,TX
Evelyn Waugh is appearing all over the place in today’s media reports: In the internet newspaper iNews, there is a story about problems being rained upon the National Trust, one of Britain’s once most beloved institutions. The Trust are the stewards of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Al Murray, Edinburgh Festival, Houston TX, iNews, Letters Live, National Trust, The American Conservative, Waugh Drive Bridge
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Waugh Events Announced
There will be a panel on Evelyn Waugh at the Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film & Music in October. This will consist of Paula Byrne, Alex Preston and Justine Picardie who will discuss the life and loves of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Festivals, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Alex Preston, Blenheim Palace Festival, Harper's Bazaar, Justine Picardie, New York Public Library, Paula Byrne
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Waugh and the Q & A
Humorist Craig Brown writing in the Daily Mail makes a case for the elimination of the Q&A following any vocal presentation by an author. He is particularly bothered by the typical literary festival as a waste of time. In the article, … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Interviews, Lectures, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail
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Waugh Panel at Cologne Literary Festival
A discussion of Evelyn Waugh is scheduled as part of the International Literary Festival “lit.Cologne”. This will be convened on board the ship MS Rhein Energie at Frankenwerft, KD Anleger, 50667 Cologne on Saturday, 18 March 2017, at 21:00pm. Here’s an abbreviated … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Festivals
Tagged Joachim Krol, lit.Cologne, Paul Ingendaay
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Waugh at Thanksgiving Table
The San Diego Reader, a weekly alternative print newspaper, has an article imagining a Thanksgiving dinner at which Evelyn Waugh is one of the guests. The others are: writer and critic H.L. Mencken, Pogo Possum, Roman emperor Claudius, writer and … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged H L Mencken, San Diego Reader, Thanksgiving
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Mixed Results for Waugh in Imaginary Booker Prize Competitions
The results are in from the competition at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to determine which book would have won the Booker prize for the year 1945 had there been one. Brideshead Revisited was on the shortlist and its case was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Booker Prize, Cheltenham Literature Feastival, Gloucestershire Live, London Review Bookshop
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Leicester Schedules Waugh Events for Literary Festival
The Literary Leicester Festival has announced an ambitious schedule of Waugh-related events on Friday, November 18. A panel on textual editing will meet at 3-4pm at which Prof Martin Stannard and Drs Barbara Cooke and Sharon Ouditt will discuss issues … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Diaries, Festivals, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Literary Leicester Festival, Martin Stannard, Philip Eade
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