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Category Archives: Humo(u)r
Tony Last on Fifth Avenue
In a recent post on his weblog, political commentator, enemy of political correctness and general iconoclast Taki Theodoracopulos (sometime contributor to the Spectator) has conjured up the image of Tony Last from Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust among the anti-Trump protestors … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Humo(u)r
Tagged Taki Theodoracopulos, Taki's Magazine
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Waugh’s Books Ranked in Fashion Magazine Lists
Stylist magazine is a weekly print publication with free distribution within the UK. It has a books column which specializes in listing books in categories thought to be of interest to or likely to amuse its audience of young women. A recent … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Stylist magazine
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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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Waugh, Catch-22 and the Demented Governess
Many of us will have read Waugh’s 1961 letter to Nina Bourne, who worked for US publisher Simon & Schuster. In the letter, Waugh politely and very humorously declines to give them a blurb promoting their new book Catch-22, the first novel … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters, World War II
Tagged Catch-22, Nina Bourne, Robert Gottlieb
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A Recent Visit to “Whispering Glades”
In this week’s LA Weekly, an alternative newspaper distributed in the Los Angeles region, there is a humorous description of a recent visit to Forest Lawn Cemetery by artist and illustrator Tony Mostrom. He begins with references to the negativity expressed … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Conferences, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Forest Lawn Cemetery, LA Weekly, Tony Mostrom
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Alec Waugh and the Cocktail Party
The website Vinepair, which is devoted to wine, beer and spirits, has posted an article by Emily Bell about how Alec Waugh invented the cocktail party. As he explained in an article in Esquire, he set out to find something to … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Humo(u)r
Tagged Cocktail Party, Emily Bell, Esquire magazine, Vinepair
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Waugh Works Named in Newspaper Shortlists
Two of Waugh’s books feature in recent newspaper shortlists. In the Daily Mail, novelist Charles Cumming names Scoop as his desert island book. Cumming is a writer of spy novels said by some to be the John Le Carre and … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Charles Cumming, Daily Mail, Shortlist Magazine
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Waugh Seminar at Durham University
The Department of English Studies at Durham University has issued the details of a seminar later this week on the works of Evelyn Waugh: Join the next Inventions of the Text seminar, where Dr Jason Harding will do something that one … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Lectures
Tagged Dr Jason Harding, Durham University
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Successful Failures at Oxford
An Oxford student blog has compiled a list of students who were academic failures at Oxford but went on to become successful writers. At the top of the list is Evelyn Waugh. His entry begins with a quote: “You spend … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Letters, Oxford
Tagged failures, Oxford Student
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Vile Bodies to be Celebrated at London Event
The Late Night Library Club of London had announced a rescheduled celebration of Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies and the Bright Young People who populated its pages. This will occur on Saturday, 25 June from 7pm-130am at the Sutton House Museum … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Humo(u)r, London, Vile Bodies
Tagged Late Night Library Club, Sutton House Museum
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