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Category Archives: Newspapers
Anthony Powell Biography to Appear Next Week
Hilary Spurling, who has written a new and much awaited biography of Anthony Powell, has served up an appetizer in an article published in the Times. She starts with a survey of the major 20th century writers who admired Powell’s … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Diaries, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Anthony Powell, Hilary Spurling, John Carey, Times newspaper
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Lost Children and Losing Margarine
The Guardian has published an article by Alex Clark about the theme of lost children in literature. The prime example is Ian McEwen’s Thatcher-era novel The Child in Time whch has been adapted for television by BBC/PBS in a 90-minute … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Alex Clark, BBC, Ellen Turner, Guardian, Spectator, The Conversation
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Mr Sniggs and the Pillocks
In the Evening Standard, Sam Leith unburdens himself of his thoughts on today’s undergraduates as they are returning to classes in the UK this week. He opens with a passage from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall where Junior Dean Sniggs … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, Sam Leith, students
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Waugh and the Country House (more)
Evelyn Waugh’s biographer Paula Byrne has reviewed the book House of Fiction by Phyllis Richardson in the current TLS. This book has been mentioned in several recent posts but Byrne focuses more closely on Richardson’s descriptions of Evelyn Waugh’s relations … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Country Houses, Paula Byrne, Phyllis Richardson, TLS
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Waugh and the Small, Cornered Creature (more)
In a previous post, we discussed a quote attributed to Evelyn Waugh in an unsigned Private Eye book review about a new collection of stories by James Kelman. A search turned up the quote as having first appeared in a … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Private Eye
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First Complete Works Volumes Published
The first four volumes of Evelyn Waugh’s Complete Works have been published by Oxford University Press. Alexander Waugh is interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in yesterday’s edition of World at One in connection with this event. The interview is by … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio 4, David Sexton, Evening Standard, Luke Jones, World at One
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Rex Mottram Redux
In his American Conservative magazine weblog, Senior Editor Rod Dreher has cited Waugh’s character Rex Mottram from Brideshead Revisited in connection with recent actions of President Trump. Dreher had previously adopted the term “Mottramism,” originally coined by Canadian Blogger, Mark Cameron, who … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Mark Cameron, Mottramism, Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
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The Fruit of Whispering Glades
The TLS has published an article marking the centenary of the birth of Jessica Mitford, sister of Waugh’s friends Nancy, Diana and Deborah. The story (“Happy 100th Birthday, Decca”) is by Mark McGinness who has also recently written about Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Jessica Mitford, Mark McGinness, TLS
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Waugh and the Small, Cornered Creature
Private Eye (8-21 September) cites Waugh in its review (“Doesnae land”) of James Kelman’s collected stories That Was a Shiver. This comes after reminding readers that in the early 1990s Kelman was the “hippest cat on the block.” One critic … Continue reading
