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Category Archives: Newspapers
Australian Journalist Cites Scoop
Australian journalist Mark Baker has cited Waugh’s novel Scoop as one of the books that changed his life: This peerless satire of the foibles and vanities of Fleet Street in the golden age of newspapers is as sharp and funny today … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Mark Baker, Sydney Morning Herald
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Waugh Appears in Student Reading List
The iNews (an online UK newspaper) has published a list of books that all well grounded students should read (not necessarily as part of a course or degree syllabus). The list consists of both fiction and non-fiction. For example, two … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged iNews, reading lists
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Waugh and Hemingway and “Beat-up Old Bastards”
An article in The Huffington Post earlier this week discusses Ernest Hemingway’s claims to have killed 122 “Krauts” during WWII and compares that claim with those of Chris Kyle (subject of the autobiography and film American Sniper) to have killed 160 enemy … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged American Sniper, Ernest Hemingway, The Huffington Post
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Scoop in the News
There are several references to Scoop in the recent London papers. The TLS has an article in its Blog about the comic use of the language of telegrams. It mentions novels by P G Wodehouse, Mikhail Bulgakov and John Swartzwelder … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Events, London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Philip Norman, Sun, Sunday Times Magazine, The 60s, TLS, V&A Museum
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Waugh Biography Reviewed in Standpoint Magazine
Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh is reviewed by Laura Freeman in Standpoint Magazine together with a recent biography of A E Housman by Peter Parker. Freeman connects the two authors at several points in the review, the first being their residence … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A E Housman, Laura Freeman, Philip Eade, Standpoint
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Waugh in Review of Auden’s Collected Works
In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, Edward Short reviews the the 6th and final volume of The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose. This is edited by Edward Mendelson. Waugh is mentioned several times: One can agree … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Edward Mendelson, Edward Short, The Weekly Standard, W H Auden
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Waugh’s Upper Lip in Poetry Competition
In this week’s Spectator, Lucy Vickery posts the results of a competition she set for a poem relating to an author’s body part. This was inspired by John Sutherland’s recent book entitled Orwell’s Nose. Several entries are displayed but, with one … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers
Tagged Lucy Vickery, poetry competition, Spectator, Waugh's upper lip
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D&F Filming Moves to Winchester
The Southern Daily Echo, a local paper that covers Hampshire, reports that the crew filming the BBC adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall has moved from Cardiff to Winchester and is filming on location at Winchester College. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BBC, Southern Daily Echo, Winchester College
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Waugh’s Conversion
In an article posted on a Roman Catholic evangelical weblog Aleteia.org, the details of Evelyn Waugh’s conversion to that religion are provided, mostly in Waugh’s own words from a 20 October 1930 essay in the Daily Express. Waugh had written the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Religious Conversion
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