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Category Archives: Newspapers
Roundup: A Florentine Dinner Party, Some Interviews and a Pub
–The latest issue of Catholic Herald includes an article about Evelyn Waugh. This is written by Mark Roberts and is taken from his recent book noted below. In it, he describes an unpleasant dinner party in Florence that Waugh attended … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged American Enterprise Institute, Bristol Post, Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Florentine Dinner Parties, New York Times, Tatler, TLS
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May Day Roundup
–In a recent report of the results of a football match between Manchester City and Real Madrid, the Guardian’s reporter Barney Ronay brings an Evelyn Waugh character into the discussion. Here’s the opening: It turns out Pep Guardiola was right … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Music, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Titchmarsh, America (Jesuit magazine), Evening Standard, The Guardian
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Roundup: Schoolmaster Novelists
–Literary biographer Jeffrey Meyers writing in TheArticle.com describes the early 20th Century school teaching careers of four English novelists. Here are the opening paragraphs: Aspiring writers have often tried their hand at teaching. They have usually assumed that it would … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Podcast, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged American Spectator, EvergreenPodcast, Irish Examiner, Jeffrey Meyers, The Article
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Tax Day (U.S.) Roundup
–A review of the recent Netflix film entitled Scoop appears in The Hollywood Reporter and several other papers. It is written by Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell and opens with this: Scoop is a dramatized feature about the BBC’s Newsnight team … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Nicholas Shakespeare, Philip Eade, The Hollywood Reporter, The Oldie, Washington Post
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Mark McGinness Notes Anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s Death
The Australian literary critic Mark McGinness has published an article in The Oldie that commemorates the 58th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death on 10 April 1966. Here are the opening paragraphs: Twenty years ago, Alexander Waugh wrote a brilliant collective … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged Mark McGinness, The Oldie
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75th Anniversary of “American Epoch” Commemorated
Kenneth Craycraft writing in the religious journal Our Sunday Visitor notes that this year is the 75th anniversary of the publication of Waugh’s article in Life Magazine (19 September 1949) entitled “The American Epoch of the Catholic Church.” This followed … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Kenneth Crayvraft, Life Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor
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Spring Equinox Roundup
–The New Criterion has posted a review of Simon Heffer’s new book on the interwar period. This is entitled Sing As We Go, and it is reviewed by Jeremy Black. The review is quite favorable and notes that Heffer’s depiction … Continue reading
Late Winter Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has an article by Bernard Richards in which he considers how difficult it can be to translate idiomatic English words and phrases into French. He also notes Evelyn Waugh had struggled with the same problem: …English idioms … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Internet, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jack Whitehall, The Times newspaper, Wall Street Journal
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Editing Merton
The Jesuit magazine America has posted a brief retrospective article describing Robert Giroux’s early professional coup with his 1948 publication of Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain. This is written by James T Keane. Evelyn Waugh played a part in the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Elected Silence, Robert Giroux, Thomas Merton
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Roundup: Letter, Exhibit and Two Recommendations
–A letter from Evelyn Waugh is on offer on the internet. The description and text appear in this posting by the seller Rooke Books: An autographed signed letter from Evelyn Waugh to Eileen Mayo, in the original envelope. Envelope is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Helena, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Bodleian Library, Letter, Rooke Books, The Catholic Times, The Spectator, The Times
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