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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh’s Watering Holes in the News
Several of Waugh’s pre-war venues have been in the papers recently. The Abingdon Arms in Beckley (near Oxford) was frequently visited by Waugh in his student days and thereafter, sometimes accompanied by his friend Alastair Graham. He wrote some of … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Abingdon Arms Beckley, Daily Telegraph, Lygon Arms Broadway, Oxford Mail, Savile Club
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Brideshead Revisionism
A collection of the essays and reviews of the late A A Gill has just been published and is reviewed as the Book of the Week in The Sunday Times. The collection includes his restaurant and TV reviews as well … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged A A Gill, Jonathan Coe, TheArtsDesk.com
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Waugh and Powell in the Spectator
The Spectator has posted a podcast in which Hilary Spurling, author of the recent biography of Anthony Powell, discusses the book with Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor. Near the end of the interview Spurling is comparing the lives and … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail, Expressen, Hilary Spurling, Mark Amory, The Spectator
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Simon Schama’s Guilty Pleasure
Historian, author and TV presenter Prof Simon Schama is interviewed by The Book Report column of the Toronto Globe and Mail. After identifying Tolstoy’s War and Peace as the book he has most reread (not too surprising for a historian), … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged First Things, Globe and Mail, Guardian, Peter Hitichins, Simon Schama
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Waugh: Letter Writing, Divorce Reform, and Wadham College
The nondenominational religious journal First Things has an article about what is seen as the dying art of letter writing. This is written by R E Colombini and entitled “So Long, Age of Letters”. He uses as a case study … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged First Things, Law and Literature, Mary Francis Coady, Maurice Bowra, Robin Esser, The Times, Thomas Merton
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Waugh Recommendation Resurfaces
An article posted on the booksblog The Literary Sisters recommends a 1953 novel which Evelyn Waugh had selected as a “best first novel” for 1953 in The Sunday Times: A largely forgotten novel now, Hugo Charteris’ A Share of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged Hugo Charteris, Radio Adelaide, The Literary Sisters, The Sunday Times, TLS
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Mary Wesley Letters Published
The letters between novelist Mary Wesley and her second husband Eric Siepmann have been published and are reviewed by D J Taylor in The Times. The book is entitled Darling Pol and is edited by Wesley’s biographer Patrick Marnham. Wesley and … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Eric Seipmann, Mary Wesley, Patrick Marnham, The Times
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Waugh Featured in Spark Memoir
Alan Taylor in his recently published memoir of Muriel Spark (Appointment in Arezzo) considers what writers most influenced Spark’s works. This was published in connection with Spark’s centenary next year and is included in what is apparently an excerpt from … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Taylor, HeraldScotland, Muriel Spark
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Interview with The Loved One’s Scriptwriter
The San Francisco Chronicle has reprinted an interview with scrptwriter Terry Southern from 28 October 1964. This would have been after he had finished the script for the film adaptation of The Loved One and perhaps while the film was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Terry Southern
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Boris Johnson Wins “Pennyfeather Prize”
Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph reports on Boris Johnson’s overblown responses to parliamentary questions: …Virtually his every answer was a speech, lasting two, three, four minutes…Whether the committee found Mr Johnson’s views enlightening, I couldn’t say. But as … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon
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