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Tag Archives: Jonathan Coe
Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day Roundup
–In another article about the proposed new Brideshead TV series, Alexander Larman wonders whether there might not be more deserving works of Waugh for adaptation. This is published in the latest issue of The Critic. After noting that it will … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Billy Wilder, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Jonathan Coe, New Criterion, Night and Day, Sydney Morning Herald, The Critic
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Another Gerhardie Revival
According to an article by novelist Jonathan Coe in The Sunday Times, another attempt to revive the works of William Gerhardie is underway. There seems to be an ongoing competition between Gerhardie and Henry Green for who can be the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Hazel Lavery, Jonathan Coe, The Sunday Times, TLS, William Gerhardie
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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 Among the Funniest
The Guardian asked writers to name the funniest book they had read. The results are in today’s issue where the choices of 14 of those polled are reprinted. Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies was selected by another comic novelist David Lodge … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Society, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged David Lodge, Guardian, Jonathan Coe
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Jonathan Coe, Evelyn Waugh and P G Wodehouse
An interview of novelist Jonathan Coe for Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines has been posted on the internet. The interview, published as “Laughing Out Loud with Jonathan Coe”, was conducted in October 2015 and deals with the comic content of Coe’s fiction. He is best … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, Jonathan Coe
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Jonathan Coe: What’s so funny about comic novels?
Evelyn Waugh barely gets a mention, but Jonathan Coe’s reflections in the Guardian on the comic novel are worth sharing: All of this leads us inevitably to PG Wodehouse, the elephant in my comic room, about whom I’ve been silent … Continue reading
Posted in Articles
Tagged comic novels, Guardian, Jonathan Coe
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