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Category Archives: Newspapers
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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Lt Hooper Enters US Politics
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Tim Kaine, Democratic candidate for Vice President is likened to Waugh’s character Lt Hooper from his novel Brideshead Revisited: Though a bit character, [Hooper] plays an indispensible role. In his unquestioning embrace of the dominant pieties of his … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Tim Kaine, Wall Street Journal, William McGurn
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Death in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Magazine has recently republished a 2011 article by Ben Ehrenreich which has “Death in L.A.” forming part of its subtitle. That is not far off the title of the German translation for Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One (Tod in Hollywood). Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ben Ehrenreich, Forest Lawn, Jessica Mitford, Los Angeles Magazine
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Waugh and Boredom
The Economist has posted on the website of its 1843 magazine an earlier article by one of its columnists, Adrian Wooldridge, entitled “Great Bores of Yore”. One of those discussed is Evelyn Waugh: Waugh was a great bore-baiter, never happier than … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Articles, Newspapers
Tagged Adrian Wooldridge, bores, Economist:1843
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Waugh in Oxford News
Waugh figures in an article in the newspaper Catholic World Report written by a Roman Catholic Rhodes Scholar about her recent experiences as a student in Oxford. She mentions numerous Roman Catholic churches still active in Oxford outside the university … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Chattels & Movables, Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox
Tagged Campion Hall, Catholic World Report, Ducker and Sons
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Bullingdon/Bollinger Faces Extinction
Sebastian Shakespeare in his Daily Mail gossip column reports that the Bullingdon Club at Oxford (on which Waugh based the Bollinger Club in his novel Decline and Fall) may soon die out for lack of interest: …The Buller is understood … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Sebastian Shakespeare
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Another Mitford Book
Another biography of the Mitford girls is reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. They seem to be competing with Evelyn Waugh for the number of biographies published, but they have an advantage since there are six of them. This latest … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Laura Thompson, New York Times, The Mitfords, The Six, Tina Brown
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