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Category Archives: Interviews
News from Stinchcombe
Following his appearance earlier this month at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival, Duncan McLaren paid a visit to nearby Piers Court. This his first visit since the two he made in the mid 2000s when he was researching his book … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Interviews, Photographs, Waugh Family
Tagged Piers Court, SoloSophie.com, Stinchcombe
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Waugh’s Visit to Vis
The Observer has published an interview of Croatian writer Srećko Horvat whose new book Poetry from the Future will be issued next week. The interviewer Andrew Anthony describes him as “one of the busiest leftwing political activists in Europe”, noting his … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Srecko Horvat, The Observer, Tito, Vis, Yugoslavia
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Russell Baker 1925-2019
Russell Baker, one of America’s leading journalists in the last half of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 93. He was best known as a reporter and columnist for the New York Times. But he got his … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged baltimore, Russell Baker
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Post-Holiday Roundup
–Stephen Bush writing in The Times about the Labour Party’s dysfunctional position on Brexit opens with this: Evelyn Waugh once complained that the Conservative Party, for all its efforts, had never even managed to “put the clock back a single … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Buenos Aires Times., Communio, Edward Champion, Irish Times, Modern Library, The Times
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The Waugh Before Christmas
–The Daily Mail includes Waugh in a Christmas quiz set by humorist Craig Brown. Here’s the question: 10) Match the Christmas with the participant: a) ‘The presents I got were — as always — far inferior in every way to … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Paris Review, THE
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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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And Yet More Letters
Literary biographer Zachary Leader is interviewed on the Book Marks page of the Literary Hub website. The second volume of his biography of Saul Bellow is published this week, and he has written the biography and edited the letters of Kingsley … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters
Tagged Book Marks, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Zachary Leader
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Guy Fawkes Night Roundup
As we approach Guy Fawkes Night in the UK, here is a miscellaneous gathering of Evelyn Waugh news items: –A new book by Antonia Fraser may have some relevance to Guy Fawkes Night (at least in exploring the “aggressive” roots … Continue reading
Brexit, Cameron and Ivor Claire
Dominic Green, who recently wrote an essay about Waugh’s military career (see previous post), has now written a report about the march of 700,000 people in London last weekend demanding a “People’s Vote” on Brexit. The story appears in the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Brexit, David Pryce-Jones, Dominic Green, Spectator, Weekly Standard
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Literary Criticism Gets Reviewed
In the current issue of Commonweal magazine, novelist and critic William Giraldi is interviewed by the magazine’s book columnist Anthony Domestico. Giraldi’s collection of essays and criticism American Audacity was publshed earlier this year. After a wide- ranging discussion of … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Commonweal, Francoise Gilot, Literary Criticism, Literary Hub, New York Times, Pablo Picasso
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