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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh Dramatization Slotted for Spring Transmission
The Times has announced a list of outstanding TV dramas scheduled to air in the New Year. Among them is the adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall to be broadcast in the Spring. (See earlier posts.) Here’s The Times’ description: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, The Times
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More Waughs Than One
Daisy Waugh, novelist and journalist, is interviewed on the writers’ website Litopia. She is the daughter of Auberon and grand daughter of Evelyn and has written several books, both fiction and nonfiction. In the interview she discusses her latest offerings in both … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Daisy Waugh, Litopia, The Week
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Actor Peter Davison Names Waugh Novel Among Favorites
In the Daily Express, British actor Peter Davison lists Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall among his favorite books: It is the book that got me into reading. I didn’t really read at school but once I became an actor and … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Exoress, Peter Davison
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WSJ Traces Etymology of “Scoop”
The Wall Street Journal has an article in which it traces the origin of the word “scoop” and its application to a journalistic coup where one reporter gets his story out ahead of the others who are (or should be) … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Jimmy Weiskopf, The City Paper (Bogota), Wall Street Journal, Woody Allen
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Author Richard Adams Dies at 96
Richard Adams who is best known for his first novel, Watership Down, has died at the age of 96. The book is about rabbits and was derived from stories he had told his children, but it was also based on his own experience … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, International Business Times, New York Times, Orlando Sentinel, Richard Adams, Watership Down
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Waugh and the New American Racists
An article in the Mexican newspaper El Economista addresses the deveopment of a new form of racism in the United. After years of melting together, as immigrants came in from the south to join those already there from Europe, Africa … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged El Economista, Mexico, Politics
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Floreat Brideshead
Brideshead Revisited receives attention in several recent postings. The New Statesman carries a brief article in its “TV and Radio” column in which a viewer retrospectively considers the 1981 TV adaptation: Watching it now, at the terrifying age of 53, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television
Tagged Bonhams, New Statesman, Pansy Lamb
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Waugh for the Holidays (More)
The latest issue of the New Yorker magazine has included Philip Eade’s biography in its “Briefly Noted” column: This crowded, witty biography follows Waugh from the ancestral home in Somerset (“The only bathroom featured a stuffed monkey that had, improbably, … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Edward St. Aubyn, Guardian, New Yorker, Paul Ham, Sarah Waters, Sydney Morning Herald
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Waugh for the Holidays
As the holidays approach, the media are gathering their year end collections of journalistic musings on 2016. Several of these implicate Evelyn Waugh or his writings. In the Daily Express, comedian Ruby Wax names a Waugh novel as one of her … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Express, Danny Morrison, Irish Echo, Philip Eade, Ruby Wax, TES, TLS
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New German Edition of Sword of Honour Reviewed
A new German edition of Sword of Honour was published earlier this year. This was the same translation as that published originally in 1981 but, according to the December issue of literaturkritik.de, it has been checked (durchgesehen) and, one presumes, updated somewhat. The German title … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged German translation, literaturkritik.de, Sylvia Heudecker
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