Tag Archives: J F Powers

Roundup: Mostly Books

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Public Domain Review has posted an article and links to reproductions from a noted piece of Victoriana in the Waugh Collection at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. Here’s the opening: The novelist Evelyn Waugh was an inveterate … Continue reading →

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Commonweal Marks J F Powers Centenary

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Roman Catholic literary magazine Commonweal has marked the centenary of novelist J F Powers birth with an article on Powers’ career entitled “His Bleak Materials” by biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers. The article begins with Meyers’ memoir of a 1981 … Continue reading →

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US Edition of New Waugh Biography Issued

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The website of booksellers Barnes & Noble is quick off the mark to issue a review of the US edition of the new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade which is published this week. This is by Katherine Powers who writes … Continue reading →

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