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Category Archives: Newspapers
Daily Mail Features Decline and Fall Adaptation
This week’s Daily Mail carries a feature article (“Love and Waugh”) by Andrew Preston on the BBC adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. This appears in the Mail’s “Weekend Magazine” and involves interviews with several members of the production’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Evgeny Lebedev, George Osborne, Jack Whitehall, James Wood, The Evening Standard
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Waugh and the Sri Lankan Cubist
The Deccan Chronicle, an English-language paper based in Hyderabad, has published an article about a 20th century Sri Lankan artist little known in the West. This is George Keyt (1901-1993) who is described as a cubist, influenced by the works … Continue reading
Vile Bodies to be Featured on BBC Radio 4
Next week’s edition of A Good Read on BBC Radio 4 will host Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken. They are identical twins and both medical doctors who have appeared in such UK TV series as Trust Me, I’m a Doctor on … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Discussions, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged A Good Read, BBC Radio 4, Chris and Xand van Tulleken, Plymouth (UK) Herald, William Telford
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Rachel Cusk Interviewed in New York Magazine
New York Magazine has today posted an interview of novelist Rachel Cusk. The interview is by Heidi Julavits and opens with this brief summary of Cusk’s work: Cusk is the author of three memoirs and nine novels, most recently Transit, which … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Heidi Julavits, New York Magazine, Rachel Cusk
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Waugh in Reviews
The Prufrock column in this week’s Weekly Standard magazine contains this reference to the new book Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons, with a link to a review of the book: The Catholic priest Ronald Knox made a deep … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Ben Judah, Financial Times, Greg Morrison, London Review of Books, Rosemary Hill, Sreven Runciman, University Bookman, Weekly Standard
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Addis Ababa Today
The Guardian in a feature-length article by Jason Burke in its “Cities” series describes the growing unrest in Ethiopia. This has its roots in the country’s land ownership policies under which the government owns all the land and allows development only … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Guardian
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Waugh in the Papers
There are references to Waugh and his works in several major newspapers. In The Weekend Australian, an article in their opinion section urged Brits, Yanks and Aussies to stop blaming voters they view as irredeemably dim for results such as Brexit, Trump and, in … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Financial Times, Graham Greene, Roy Hattersley, The Irish Times, The Spectator, The Weekend Australian
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HHA Literary Trail (more)
Another local paper (The Gazette) has published a story about Evelyn Waugh’s association with a country house on the Historic House Association’s new literary trail. This is Woodchester Mansion located between Dursley (where the Waughs lived from 1937-1955) and Stroud. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dursley, National Trust, Nympsfield, Piers Court, Woodchester Mansion, Woodchester Park
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Novelist Nicholas Mosley (1923-2017)
The death has been announced of novelist Nicholas Mosley at the age of 93. He wrote several novels which are variously described in his obituaries as “heavy going”, “densely written”, “adventurous”, and “not light reading.” So, these are not exactly written … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Diana Mosley, New York Times, Nicholas Mosley, Oswald Mosley
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Patrick Melrose Novels to be Televised
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn will be adapted for television in a 5 episode series. Each episode will be devoted to one of the five novels. The satirical humor of these novels is often compared to the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, David Nicholls, Edward St. Aubyn, Evening Standard, New York Times Book Review, Patrick Melrose Novels, The Independent
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