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Category Archives: Newspapers
Wodehouse Memorial Dedicated in Westminster Abbey
Several papers carry the story of the dedication yesterday of a memorial plaque to P G Wodehouse in Westminster Abbey. This is from the Financial Times: Nestled above playwright Noël Coward and to the right of broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, a … Continue reading
Waugh, Nabokov and a Booker Nominee
In today’s Times newspaper, critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews a long-shot Booker prize nominee entitled Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. This is a 1000 page novel written in the form of a single sentence. The review opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Booker Prize, D.J.Taylor, Lucy Ellmann, The Times
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Positive Light on 2008 Brideshead Film
Several recent articles have reconsidered the much-maligned 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited in a relatively more positive light: –In a essay published in TLS earlier this month, Mikaella Clements writes about the theme of the “bath in twentieth century … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Ben Whishaw, Julian Jarrold, Matthew Goode, TLS
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Waugh in Academia: Shanghai and Oxford
A paper relating to Waugh will be presented later this week at an academic conference in China. This is entitled “Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold“. It will be offered on Saturday, 21 September … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Oxford, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, Duke Kunshan University, Jeremy Paxman, Yuexi Liu
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Mid-September Roundup: Applause and Design
—The Times newspaper carries an excerpt from David Cameron’s new memoirs For the Record in which he recalls his education. After prep school and Eton, he discusses Oxford and concludes with this about his membership in the Bullingdon Club: I … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Christanity & Literature, Daily Telegraph, David Cameron, Omega Workshops, The Times
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BBC “Great Lives” Revisited
In this week’s issue of The Tablet, columnist Christopher Howse revisits last December’s BBC Radio 4 broadcast of the series Great Lives in which Evelyn Waugh was the subject. See previous posts. Presenter Matthew Parris interviewed panelists Russell Kane, a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Christopher Howse, Great Lives, The Tablet
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Croatian Version of A Handful of Dust
The Zagreb-based publisher Mozaik Knjiga has issued a Croatian translation of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. The Croatian title is Pregršt prašine and the translator is Petra Mrduljaš. The book is reviewed in the weekly Croatian national news magazine Nacional … Continue reading
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Tagged Croatia, Glas Istre, Mozaik Knjiga, Nacional
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Early September Roundup
–Waugh biographer Selina Hastings has reviewed D J Taylor’s recent literary history Lost Girls in the Literary Review. See earlier posts. Her review concludes with this: In Lost Girls, Taylor presents a colourful portrait of this fascinating, sophisticated and highly … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Remote People, Vile Bodies, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Catholic Herald, Flood Magazine, Lana Del Ray, Literary Review, The Spectator
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Dystopias and Novellas
Novelist Robert Harris has written an essay in The Sunday Times about and extract from his new novel The Second Sleep that will be published next week in the UK (19 November in the USA). The novel is written in … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged flashdesigner.com.hk, Jerry House, Robert Harris, The Sunday Times
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Waugh and The Brexlit Novel
The Australian literary journal Quadrant has posted an article entitled “Brexit and the Decline of the English Novel” in which a new genre of novel is described. This is the “Brexlit” novel and has already chalked up a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Newspapers
Tagged Brexit, David Martin Jones, Quadrant
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