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Category Archives: Newspapers
Brideshead Floribundum
Waugh’s most popular book Brideshead Revisited seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. Much, but not all of this is directed to prior and projected film and TV adaptations: —The Spectator’s supplement Spectator Life several weeks ago posted … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Paste Magazine, RTE, The Spectator, Washington Post
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“The Loved One” Features in Two Events
The 1965 film adaptation of The Loved One will be presented next week at an event in New York City. The presenter is musician Fred Schneider, singer with a group called The B-52s. As described in The Asbury (NJ) Press: … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Forest Lawn, Fred Schneider, The Asbury (NJ) Press, The Los Angeles County Museum
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Hallowe’en Roundup
–Giles Coren writing in The Times surveys the plight of the male novelist in today’s literary market. After describing the difficulties of getting published in a world where publishers and readers are mostly women as well as the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Collections, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Aleteia, Country Houses, Daily Telegraph, First Things, The Economist, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Roundup: Great Writers and Happy Danes
–A Korean language paper Seoul Ilbo recently published a background article on Denmark, explaining its reputation as the happiest country in the world. This appeared among its sources for the article: Also, unlike other Nordics, Danes are known for being … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox
Tagged America, Donna Tartt, New Republic, Rick Stein, Seoul Ilbo
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Granada TV Adaptation Celebrated in the Spectator
The Spectator has published an article marking the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This is by literary critic Mark McGinness. It opens with a description of the state of mind of potential UK viewers … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Mark McGinness, The Spectator
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Columbus Day Roundup
—The Independent newspaper collected from its readers book titles that played on the titles of older books. These were published in a recent article by John Rentoul. One of Waugh’s was selected: 8. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, Interviews, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged American Greatness, Duncan McLaren, FlashBak.com, New York Public Library, The Independent, Wall Street Journal
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Robert Murray Davis (1934-2021) R.I.P.
Robert Murray Davis, one of the leading academic scholars of Evelyn Waugh and his works, has died in Arizona on 11 September 2021 at the age of 87. The following obituary has appeared as well as a related story in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers
Tagged Boonville Daily News, Robert Murray Davis
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End-of-the-Month Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph is about to bring back its Way of the World column. This was a home of irreverent political satire from 1955 when it was started by Michael Wharton until 2008 when Craig Brown gave it up. In … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged BritBox, Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, Guardian, The Economist
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Autumnal Equinox Roundup
–The Sydney Morning Herald has posted an article by Tony Wright entitled: “In memory of cleft sticks and the frustrations of sending a story.” It opens with this: There were times in strange places when I longed for a cleft … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged New Criterion, New Republic, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, University of Dayton
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