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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waughs: Comedy and Fitness
An article has been posted entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Muse in Scoop”. This is by Dr Robert Hickson and is available on the weblog Catholicism.org. The article opens with the posting of Waugh’s introduction to the 1963 edition of Scoop … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged catholicism.org, Daily Mail, Daisy Waugh, Dr. Robert Hickson, fitness
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Yes, You Have No Bananas
The Toronto Globe and Mail has an opinion article entitled: “Shakespeare’s children: Should artists have kids?” This is by writer Tom Rachman (best known for his novel The Imperfectionists) and opens with this: After years of grey deprivation during the … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged bananas, Tom Rachman, Tornoto Globe & Mail
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Brideshead: Crime Story, Aesthetes and a Scientist
The second season of the TV series American Crime Story is nearing its end on the FX cable channel in the USA. It has just begun on BBC and has reached Episode 3 this week. It is entitled the Assassination … Continue reading
Hard Cases: Drugs and Reality
The Spanish magazine Historia y Vida based in Barcelona has an article this month about Brenda Dean Paul. She was a member of the bright young people, and the story by Eva Melús connects her with Waugh’s novels of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brenda Dean Paul, Catholic World Report, Historia y Vida, Madeleine L'Engle
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A Diary, a Legacy, and a First Edition
The long-running “Londoner’s Diary” column of the Evening Standard has been relaunched as “The Londoner” and has a new author, Charlotte Edwardes, who writes her introductory article with a nod to Evelyn Waugh and several of his friends: On my … Continue reading
Waugh Criminal
A new book about criminality in WWII (Merlin at War) has been written by Mark Ellis and is discussed on Historyextra.com (official website of the BBC History Magazine). The article opens with this: The Second World War was a golden … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged HistoryExtra.com, Independent (London), Racing Post, Ralph Hoare, Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Waugh and Norman Mailer: “The Naked and the Read”
This week’s TLS has an article (“The Naked and the Read”) about Norman Mailer’s library. This is by J Michael Lennon, Mailer’s archivist and authorized biographer. Mailer seems to have been a book accumulator rather than a book collector like … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bibliophilia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged J Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer, TLS
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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead in the News
Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel The Sparsholt Affair is being released in the USA next week and is reviewed in the Boston Globe. The Globe’s reviewer, Priscilla Gilman, as with several in the UK, notes the book’s conections with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, BBC, Boston Globe, CBC, Meg Wolitzer, MSN, The Atlantic, The Guardian
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Waugh and Anthony Powell (More)
Waugh’s influence is prominently mentioned in a review in this week’s Die Tagespost, a German language paper sponsored by the Roman Catholic church. The review is by Urs Buhlmann and the book is Powell’s novel The Soldier’s Art which has been … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Die Tagespost, Martin McGinness, Sydney Morning Herald, Urs Buhlmann
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Evil Genius on BBC Podcast
BBC has signed comedian and Evelyn Waugh fan Russell Kane do a series of podcasts on the theme of the Evil Genius. In this, he will trace characters through history who have been geniuses but who have also done horrible … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Adam Gopnick, BBC, Russell Kane, TLS
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