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Tag Archives: Graham Greene
Roundup: Theatrical Torture, Biographical Therapy and Lineage of Comic Novel
–The Italian newspaper La Stampa for 25 January 2025 has an article by the late Gaia Servadio which is based on an interview with Graham Greene that seems to have taken place about 1978 (publication date of The Human Factor … Continue reading
Waugh + Greene = “The Odd Couple”
The Critic magazine has posted a feature length article by literary critic and biographer Jeffrey Meyers. This is entitled “The odd couple: Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Jeffrey Mayers, The Critic
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Evelyn Waugh Studies 52.1 (Spring 2021)
The latest issue of the Evelyn Waugh Studies has been published and distributed to members. This is issue No. 52.1 (Spring 2021). The contents and opening paragraphs are as follows: ARTICLES Evelyn Waugh: A Housemasterās Report Jeremy Tomlinson Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Lancing
Tagged Graham Greene, Jeremy Tomlinson
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May Day Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has a preview of the upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. See previous post: THE Mitford sisters would doubtless approve. Emily Mortimer, the daughter of the novelist John Mortimer [credited with screenplay for … Continue reading
Late Winter Roundup
–The Daily Mail has posted some excerpts from the new and unexpurgated edition of the diaries of Chips Channon. Two of these new entries involve comments of Channon about Evelyn Waugh: Evelyn Waugh – Sunday, December 16, 1934 Lunch was … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Chips Channon, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, FarOut, FlashBak.com, Graham Greene, Guardian, Joseph Pearce, Nicola Pagett, Plotlines., TLS, Tom Wolfe
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New Biography of Graham Greene
A new biography of Graham Greene has been published. The UK edition is entitled Russian Roulette and is written by Richard GreeneĀ (no relation but editor of a collection of Graham’s letters). The book is reviewed in the Sunday Times by … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Diaries, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, Graham Greene, Richard Greene, Sunday Times
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Graham Greene and Waugh Discuss Powell Novel
In theĀ latest installment of imaginary encounters among Evelyn Waugh and his Oxford friends at the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival, Duncan McLaren has Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh discuss Anthony Powell’s 1971 novel Books Do Furnish a Room. This was the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals
Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Graham Greene
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Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
In Duncan McLaren’s latest series of articles, Evelyn Waugh’s friends from Oxford are collecting at the Brideshead Festival. The last of these, by my count based on Duncan’s own projections, is Graham Greene. The first installment of the Greene episode … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Humo(u)r
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Graham Greene, Titus Groan
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Waugh Transformed
Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph has written an article entitled “How the Second World War transformed British literature”. The subject is a good bit more narrow than the title suggests. In fact, he considers primarily how WWII transformed the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Graham Greene, Simon Heffer
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Mexico Revisited: Waugh, Greene and Theroux
Travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux recently published a travel book about an automobile trip to Mexico. This is entitled On the Plain of SnakesĀ and is reviewed in the digital academic magazine PublicBooks.org by Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, professor of Latin American … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Graham Greene, Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, Mexico, Paul Theroux, PublicBooks.org
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