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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh at Thanksgiving Table
The San Diego Reader, a weekly alternative print newspaper, has an article imagining a Thanksgiving dinner at which Evelyn Waugh is one of the guests. The others are: writer and critic H.L. Mencken, Pogo Possum, Roman emperor Claudius, writer and … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged H L Mencken, San Diego Reader, Thanksgiving
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Author William Trevor Dies at 88
Publishers Penguin Random House Ireland have announced the death of novelist and short story writer William Trevor (1928-2016). According to his obituary in the New York Times, he was best known for his “mournful, sometimes darkly funny short stories and novels … Continue reading
Posted in Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Guardian, Hawthornden Prize, New York Times, William Trevor
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Telegraph Compares New Zadie Smith Novel to Brideshead
In a Daily Telegraph review of Zadie Smith’s new novel Swing Time, the reviewer James Walton compares it with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. The novel involves a narrator and a friend who who live in different social strata of the same … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Swing Time, Zadie Smith
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Collection of Elizabeth Bowen Reviews Published
A substantial collection of the book reviews written by novelist Elizabeth Bowen has been published by Northwestern University Press. It is entitled The Weight of a World of Feeling and is edited by Allan Hepburn, who previously edited a volume of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Elizabeth Bowen, Micah Mattix, Washington Free Beacon
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Milk in First
A recent article in the Sunday Telegraph describes its reporter’s experiences in a venture …at the Lanesborough hotel in London, which has recently launched an afternoon tea etiquette experience in partnership with Debrett’s, which has been Britain’s authority on etiquette and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Afternoon Tea, Telegraph
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John Betjeman on Stage
A one-man stage performance of Edward Fox playing Evelyn Waugh’s friend and Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, is currently touring Southern England. The play entitled “Sand in the Sandwiches” opened in Oxford last month and is reviewed in the Oxford Mail whose … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Edward Fox, John Betjeman, Oxford Mail
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New Novel with Brideshead Theme
A new novel has a Brideshead theme. This is the third novel by Francesca Kay, whose first two were also well received. This one is entitled The Long Room and, according to a review by Max Davidson in the Mail … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged 1981, Francesca Kay, Mail on Sunday, Max Davidson
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Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, and US Election
Christopher Buckley, writing in the New York Times, invokes Evelyn Waugh in a review of an audiobook of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Buckley turned on the recording and ran it straight through for 8 hours to … Continue reading
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) R.I.P.
Poet, novelist and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. In his native city, the Montreal Gazette has invoked the words of Evelyn Waugh in a memorial article: Evelyn Waugh once said at a certain point in his … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Leonard Cohen, Montreal Gazette
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