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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Three Waughs Mentioned in Independent Article
In last week’s Independent on Sunday, columnist and novelist D J Taylor mentioned three Waughs in his column. He was discussing the hardships worked on the children of successful parents as they sought to find their own careers. After discussing … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Miscellaneous, Waugh Family
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Independent on Sunday, Kurt Cobain
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Waugh Recognized as Expert on Style
In yesterday’sĀ Guardian, Waugh is named twice by novelist and bibliophile Joseph Connolly in his list of Top 10 books on the topic of “style.” Connolly (no apparent relation to Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly a/k/a Everard Spruce) names Brideshead Revisited as … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Miscellaneous, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Allan Massie, Black Velvet, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Joseph Connolly, Noblesse Oblige
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The Loved One Added to Recommended Books about L.A.
Last month the Guardian issued another in its series of book recommendations about U.S. cities. This one related to books about Los Angeles. Others have dealt with San Francisco and New Orleans. The original L.A. list contained no books by … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Letters, Miscellaneous, The Loved One
Tagged Guardian, Los Angeles
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Plashy fen and leprechaun-flavoured wine
Waugh scored a twofer in last week’s Telegraph with citations relating to both nature and food writing. On March 30, Waugh’s parody of nature writing in Scoop is cited by Robert MacfarlaneĀ in an interview as an example of what that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Jane Shilling, Nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, Telegraph newspaper, Wine
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D.J.Taylor Cites Waugh to Rebut Fears of E-Book Threat to Novel
In a recent Independent on Sunday column (“Ebook apartheid: Fay Weldon calls on writers to adapt their style for technology,” 8 March 2015), critic and novelist D.J. Taylor addresses an argument by fellow novelist Fay Weldon. At the Bath Literary … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Festivals, Miscellaneous
Tagged D.J.Taylor, E-Books, Fay Weldon, Independent on Sunday
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Evelyn Waugh and Catch-22
Today’s Guardian adds Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 to its list of the 100 Best Novels, joining Scoop which was named in an earlier article. The article explains that Robert Gottlieb, the book’s editor at Simon & Schuster, triedĀ to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, World War II
Tagged Catch-22, Guardian, Joseph Heller, Robert Gottlieb
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Memoir of EWS’s Honorary President Published
David Lodge, the Society’s Honorary President, has written the first volume of his memoirs. This was published in the UK this week under the title Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-1975. An international edition is promised … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh Society, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Robbery Under Law, Television Programs
Tagged D.J.Taylor, David Lodge, Financial Times, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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London Papers Report Burning of “Scoop” Hotel in Addis Abba
The London papers today reported that a hotel in Addis Abba described in Waugh’s writings was badly damaged in a fire. See Daily Mail (“Fire guts Ethiopian hotel made famous by ‘Scoop’”). Ā Similar stories appeared in the Daily Telegraph and … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Abba, Hotel Itegue Taitu, William Deedes
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The Flytes Appear in Guardian’s “Families in Literature” Series
The Guardian newspaper is this week running a series of articles on “Families in Literature.” Yesterday’s article, by Moira Redmond, is devoted to the Flyte family in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Redmond focuses on the familiar theme that Sebastian is using … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous
Tagged Families, Guardian, Moira Redmond
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Waugh Cited Among Writers’ Christmas Diary Entries
Yesterday’s Independent on Sunday cites several diary entries from English writers, dating back to Samuel Pepys in 1662, in which they describe how they spent Christmas. Waugh’s diary for 25 December 1924 is among those quoted. This was his first … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Miscellaneous
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Christmas 1924, Independent on Sunday
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