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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Evelyn Waugh Studies 56.1 (Spring 2025)
The latest edition of Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed and is posted at this link. Here is Jamie Collinson’s description of its contents: I write to provide you with edition 56.1 of Evelyn Waugh Studies. Appropriately for this back-to-school season, … Continue reading
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Roundup: Waugh and Merton
—The Tablet has published a thoughtful article by Canadian author Mary Frances Coady about the relationship between Catholic writers Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Merton. This is entitled “The Odd Couple”. Here are some excerpts: In the early summer of 1948, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chronicle, George Mikes, Mary Frances Coady, The Spectator, The Tablet, Thomas Merton, W Somerset Maugham
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Roundup: Decline in Standards and Increase in Price
—The Times has published a sort of interview with William Boyd on the occasion of the publication of his latest novel, Gabriel’s Moon. Here’s an excerpt: There is no point attempting to whitewash old attitudes. Trying to tidy up the bad … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic World Report, Evening Standard, Guardian, Jonkers Booksellers, The Oldie, The Times, William Boyd
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Evelyn Waugh, d. 10 April 1966. R. I. P.
Evelyn Waugh died on this day in 1966 at his home in Combe Florey, Somerset.
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Ann Pasternak Slater to Join Hertford College Event
It has been announced that Waugh scholar Ann Pasternak Slater, editor of Waugh’s short stories and author of the recent study Evelyn Waugh (Writers and their Work)Â will join Alexander Waugh and Barbara Cooke at the previously announced lecture at Hertford … Continue reading
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Scoop Recommended on World Book Day
Today is World Book Day. The Daily Telegraph marks the occasion issuing another list of recommended reading–this is the Top 20 and includes Waugh’s Scoop: Last year Telegraph writers put together a list of the 100 novels everyone should read. From … Continue reading
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Guardian Includes The Loved One in Top 10 Hollywood Novels
The Guardian in this week’s “Top 10” books column considers books about Hollywood. Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One is among those selected by Tim Walker who has himself just finished his own contribution to the genre (Smoke Over Malibu). … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Greg Sheridan, Guardian, The Australian, Tim Weeks
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Waugh and Nostalgia
The Washington Post’s theatre critic Peter Marks waxes nostalgic in response to the current period of political turmoil consuming the United States. Most prominently, in a recent column entitled “Nostalgia! Yestalgia!”, he harks back to the “soothing” musical comedies of Rodgers and … Continue reading
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Tagged Nostalgia, Peter Marks, Washington Post
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Nicholas Sheetz (1952-2016) R.I.P.
The death of Nicholas Sheetz, former librarian of Georgetown University’s Special Collections, has been announced. Nick is well known to Waugh scholars and was always helpful to those using the collections. He was also always ready  to offer help to … Continue reading
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Evelyn Waugh’s Birthday
Evelyn Waugh was born on this date in 1903.
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