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Category Archives: Newspapers
A Week of Waugh
A review of the preceding week’s online press and blogs turns up several references to Evelyn Waugh. The New York Public Library’s blog contains a short article on the occasion of Waugh birthday, recounting the origins of The Loved One: … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Baltimore Sun, Movie Nation, New York Public Library, Observer (NY), Robert Byron, The Guardian
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The Cherwell Revisits Waugh’s Oxford
The Oxford student newspaper the Cherwell has an article by Altair Brandon-Salmon that compares the Oxford described by Waugh in Brideshead Revisited with that of today. He uses as his text the tutorial on Oxford manners provided to Charles Ryder by … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell (newspaper)
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Brideshead Reconfectioned
The Daily Mail has run a story (“It’s the Great Brideshead Bake Off!”) about a project by the new occupants of Castle Howard to remake the building in the form of a cake in an effort to promote Christmas season … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Daily Mail
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Waugh Biography Reviewed in the US Press
Reviews have appeared in two US newspapers of the new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade, published earlier this month in the US. In the Wall Street Journal, the book is reviewed by British novelist and journalist Allan Massie. (If … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Allan Massie, Micah Mattix, Philip Eade, Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon
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Death Announced of Wodehouse Society Founder
Lt-Col Norman Murphy, who founded the British branch of the P G Wodehouse Society, has died at the age of 83. According to the Telegraph, Murphy was a literary sleuth whose researches over four decades showed that Wodehouse’s 98 comic … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Norman Murphy, P G Wodehouse Society, Telegraph, Times
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Waugh Cited in Press Interviews
Several recent unrelated newspaper interviews mention Evelyn Waugh in the context of the careers of those interviewed. In the Catholic Herald, historical novelist Robert Harris talks about his latest novel Conclave. This has as its setting the selection of a Pope. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Ashok Ferrey, Catholic Herald, Daily News (Sri Lanka), Evening Standard, Kim Jones, Omega Workshops, Robert Harris
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Waugh Quoted in Times Article on Brexit
The Times for 11 October carries an article castigating those members of the Conservative Party who are now backing away from the anti-immigrant groundswell that carried the day for the Leave faction who led the campaign for Brexit. The unsigned … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Brexit, The Times
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Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Terry Southern
In the latest issue of the New Yorker, there is an interesting article (“The Novelist of Human Unknowability”) about Henry Green written by London-based literary critic Leo Robson. The article is built around the friendship between Green and US writer Terry … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Film, Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Henry Green, Leo Robson, New Yorker, Paris Review, Terry Southern
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Colossus of Snobbery
Critic and novelist D J Taylor has written a book inspired by William Thackeray entitled The New Book of Snobs, to be published later this month. An excerpt appears in the Daily Mail. This deals mostly with Taylor’s account of his own … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Daily Mail, postcodes, snobbery
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Actress Cites Waugh in Career Move
TV and film actress Sarah Jessica Parker has announced a new career in publishing, apparently part-time. She made her name in the HBO series Sex and the City. According to the story in T: The New York Times Style Magazine: … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Hogarth Press, New York Times, Sarah Jessica Parker, Virginia Woolf
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