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Category Archives: Humo(u)r
Smallbeer, the Professor and Waugh
D J Taylor writing in the current issue of The Critic describes how Professor Barry Mole managed to eke a career out of the works of the largely forgotten 1930s poet Esme Smallbeer. This is the latest entry in his … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Critic
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Two Essays: Orwell’s Comic Novels and Waugh’s Oxford
There are two well written and interesting essays this week relating to Waugh. The first is by Jonathan Clarke and appears in the quarterly City Journal. This is entitled “Orwell’s Humor” and relates mainly to his two 1930s comic novels … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged City Journal, Daisy Dunn, George Orwell, Jonathan Clarke, The Oldie
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P J O’Rourke 1947-2022 R.I.P.
American satirist P J O’Rourke died earlier this week at the age of 74. He made his name as a conservative commentator but was an equal opportunity satirist. For example, according to the obituary in the Washington Post, he once … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged New York Times, P J O'Rourke, Spiked, Washington Post
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New Books: Chagford and Fish Knives
–American novelist Chuck Etheridge has published earlier this year a new book entitled Chagford Revisited. Here’s the description from the publisher: Marker, an American Anglophile software engineer, has purchased the home Evelyn Waugh stayed in while writing Brideshead Revisited. He … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Humo(u)r, Interviews, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Catholic Herald, Chuck Etheridge, Daisy Waugh, TheAuthorsShow.com
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Midsummer Night’s Roundup
–The Jermyn Street Theatre has announced a production that may be of interest to Waugh enthusiasts: Mr and Mrs Nobody is […] adapted from the popular comic novel Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith, Keith Waterhouse‘s Mr … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One, Theater
Tagged El Manana, Guardian, Jermyn Street Theatre, New York Times, TLS
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Waugh’s Hoax on April Fools Day
The Economist in recognition of the importance of April Fools Day has published a list of famous hoaxes. These were not necessarily perpetrated on the day itself. One category was art hoaxes. These included the Nat Tate wheeze concocted by … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Brian Howard, Bruno Hat, Economist:1843
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Evelyn Waugh as Seen by Anthony Blanche
This week’s Spectator has another writing competition in which a Waugh entry gets a mention. This is #3177 and the topic is “a well-known fictional person’s view of their author”. The Spectator’s Lucy Vickery cites some interesting non-winners in her … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged JCH Mounsey, Taki Theodoracopulos, The Spectator
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Evelyn’s Last Dance
Duncan McLaren has posted two articles in his Brideshead Festival series in which Evelyn Waugh ponders the contents of the last two volumes of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. These are Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Men at Arms, Put Out More Flags, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Duncan McLaren
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Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
In Duncan McLaren’s latest series of articles, Evelyn Waugh’s friends from Oxford are collecting at the Brideshead Festival. The last of these, by my count based on Duncan’s own projections, is Graham Greene. The first installment of the Greene episode … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Humo(u)r
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Graham Greene, Titus Groan
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A Buyer’s Market for Quennell and Connolly
Duncan McLaren has aded another article about Evelyn Waugh’s interest in Anthony Powell’s novel cycle Dance to the Music of Time. In this one, Evelyn and Nancy Mitford continue their discussion of Powell’s books, focussing on the second in the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Discussions, Humo(u)r, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell, Cyril Connolly, Duncan McLaren, Peter Quennell
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