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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh’s Religious Conversion
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent in the Western Christian churches, and perhaps in recognition of this date, the Catholic Herald has reposted an article from April 2016 relating to Waugh’s conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. This … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Catholic Herald, Constance Watson
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Shrove Tuesday Roundup
–The BBC has announced plans to release a collection of audio recordings of Jeremy Front’s radio adaptations of several works by Evelyn Waugh. This will include Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall as well as several others not identified specifically … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, LitHub.com, Sally Rooney, The Times
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Otto Silenus Rides Again in New Criterion
The cutural journal New Criterion posts an editorial in its current issue relating to the recent announcement of a new Federal policy on architectural style. This is entitled “Decline, fall & rise: On ‘Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again’”. The article … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged architecture, Hugo Charteris, New Criterion
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Town & Country Remembers Waugh
This month 75 years ago Town & Country magazine, based in New York, completed the serial publication of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited with its fourth monthly installment issued in February 1945. This abbreviated version preceded by several months the first … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Lettice Lygon, Town & Country
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Presidents’ Day Roundup
–The New York Public Library is celebrating its 125th anniversary and has used the occasion to ask its staff to choose the best 125 books for adult reading published during its lifetime. One of those selected is Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Irish Times, Spectator, The Times newspaper, Times and Star (Cumbria)
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Waugh on Valentine’s Day
A website offering varying forms of love letters that might be sent by a prospective suitor includes one that Evelyn Waugh sent to his second wife. This is in TheLily.com (a Washington Post affiliate): 4. Write short, and don’t be … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, St Valentine's Day, TheLily.com
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Yugoslavia: Churchill Hoodwinked
Writer and TV producer Peter Batty was recently interviewed by the Slovenian weekly news magazine Democracija. The results are posted in English on their website. He is asked about his book Hoodwinking Churchill (2011) in which he explained how English … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Democracija, Peter Batty, Yugoslavia
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Upcoming Waugh Events: Aberdeen and Leipzig
—Random House has announced a Waugh-related promotional event at the upcoming Leipzig Book Fair next month. They will offer two readings by Jan Weiler of selections from his audiobook in German of the unexpurgated translation of Waugh’s novel Scoop. This … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, Events, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged Aberdeen Press and Journal, Country Houses, Granite Noir, Leipzig Book Fair, NYU Institute of Fine Arts
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Pre-Valentine Roundup
–Duncan McLaren has added a new Waugh chum in his descriptions of “visitors” to the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival. This is Patrick Balfour who was a friend of Waugh from his Oxford days. They remained friends until Waugh’s death. Balfour … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford, Sword of Honour, Theater
Tagged Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Guyana, Oxford Mail, Patrick Balfour, The Spectator, Wall Street Journal
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