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Tag Archives: Literary Hub
Roundup: Party Fiction and Personal Libraries
–The National Review has published a symposium on the subject of personal libraries in which participants explain the pleasure and burden they impose. Here’s the contribution of American literary critic Terry Teachout: My Manhattan apartment contains a thousand-odd books, but … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Adaptations, Events, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Literary Hub, National Review, Paris Review, Terry Southern, Terry Teachout
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Early March Roundup
–Laura Freeman writing in the Daily Telegraph (27 February) surveys children’s books and discovers that one of her favorites has been rated as having a “really high difficulty level.” This is Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men series and she sees the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph, Eastern Eye, Gay Star News, Laura Freeman, Literary Hub, Oxford Times, Roger Hargreaves, The Scotsman
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Roundup: The Walrus and the Waugh Scholars
–Duncan McLaren has added a new article to his Evelyn Waugh website relating to three of the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Precocious Waughs (v.30), Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934 (v.26), and A Little Learning (v.19). He … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, Work Suspended
Tagged Catholic Herald, Duncan McLaren, Literary Hub, Marcel Proust, The Tatler
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Roundup: Black Shorts and Literate Oenophiles
–Writing in America: The Jesuit Review, Rob Weinert-Kendt, journalist and editor of the American Theatre magazine, recalls how his life has been shaped by his reading and viewing of Brideshead Revisited as a teenager. He begins by putting the story … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Guardian, Jay McInerney, Literary Hub, P.G.Wodehouse
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Author William Giraldi contributed an essay to Commonweal magazine as part of a series in which Roman Catholic intellectuals explain why they have left or remained in the church. A Catholic from birth, his article was posted on the magazine’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop
Tagged Catholic Herald, Commonweal, Daily Express, Literary Hub, Money Week, Stephanie Mann, William Geraldi
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Literary Criticism Gets Reviewed
In the current issue of Commonweal magazine, novelist and critic William Giraldi is interviewed by the magazine’s book columnist Anthony Domestico. Giraldi’s collection of essays and criticism American Audacity was publshed earlier this year. After a wide- ranging discussion of … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Commonweal, Francoise Gilot, Literary Criticism, Literary Hub, New York Times, Pablo Picasso
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Bastille Day Roundup
With the French celebrating their National Day and their World Cup victory this past weekend, our latest roundup is dedicated to them. Appropriately enough, our first entry relates to France. –In the weblog Literary Hub, Emily Temple admits that most writers … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Anecdotal Evidence, BBC, Countess of Carnarvon, Downton Abbey, Literary Hub, Marcel Proust, Nigeness
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Early Summer Roundup: Promotions and Lists
Hertford College, Oxford, has prepared a gallery of its illustrious alumni for use on its promotional website. Waugh is the youngest of the 12 Old Hertfordians included. The unattributed entry is a well-presented summary of his writing career. It begins … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catch-22, Conde Nast Traveller, David Bowie/Alladin Sane, Heatherley School of Fine Art, Hertford College, Literary Hub, Marseille, National Catholic Register
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TV Series Previewed: Like Trainspotting Written by Evelyn Waugh
The Sunday Times has an interview of Benedict Cumberbatch and a preview of his new Patrick Melrose TV series. Cumberbatch both produced the series and plays the leading role. The books were adapted for TV by David Nicholls who previously … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Edward St. Aubyn, Emily Temple, Literary Hub, Patrick Melrose Novels, Stuff.co.nz, World Book Day
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Cousin Jasper’s Advice
Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard has written an article about degree results. She opens with this: In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, the protagonist Charles Ryder receives advice from his cousin Jasper before starting his Oxford degree. “You want a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, Evening Standard, Literary Hub, Lord Speaker, The American Conservative
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