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Tag Archives: William Boyd
Waugh Lecture at Lancing
The Lancing College website has posted a report of last month’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. This year’s speaker was OL Sir Tim Rice (1958-62) who recalled how events at Lancing had helped shape his career as a lyricist: Tim admitted that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Lectures, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Sir Tim Rice, William Boyd
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Lord Ottercove Redux
The pages of the TLSÂ have been the scene for the reappearance of a character named Lord Ottercove who first surfaced (or not) in the novels of Evelyn Waugh and William Gerhardie. This discussion started with Paula Byrne’s review of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Censorship, D.J.Taylor, Lord Beaverbrook, TLS, William Boyd, William Gerhardie
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William Boyd, Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh
Simon Kuper writing in the Financial Times reports an interview with novelist William Boyd. This is on the occasion of publication of Boyd’s latest novel Love is Blind: Boyd draws a âbinary divisionâ between two kinds of novelist: autobiographers, such … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Financial Times, New Statesman, P J O'Rourke, Wall Street Journal, William Boyd, Winston Churchill
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Waugh on Sunday
This week’s Sunday Times contains an adulatory interview of novelist William Boyd. After describing his career at Gordonstoun School as happier than that of Prince Charles, the interview turns to his writing. His first book, published in 1983, Â was … … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Michael Foot, Sunday Times, William Boyd
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BBC Radio to Air Discussion of Scoop
The next installment of  BBC’s A Good Read on Monday 21 November will include a discussion of Waugh’s novel Scoop. Here’s the description from the BBC Radio 4 Extra schedule: Rosie Boycott and her guests – novelist William Boyd and journalist Paul Foot – … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, William Boyd
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William Boyd Reviews Pasternak Slater and Eade in Guardian
Novelist and Waugh admirer William Boyd in today’s Guardian reviews the new books on Waugh by Ann Pasternak Slater and Philip Eade. See earlier posts. Perhaps because the Guardian had already reviewed Eade’s book, Boyd spends most of his review … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Guardian, Philip Eade, William Boyd
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William Boyd Names Scoop as a Favorite Classic
In response to a request by booksellers W H Smith, novelist William Boyd has named Scoop one of his five favorite classic novels. This comes as no surprise since Boyd wrote the screenplay for the 1987 TV adaptation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Scoop, Television
Tagged W H Smith, William Boyd
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Waugh Adaptations in TLS
The TLS has posted an essay by Alexander Larman (“Waugh on screen”) on its weblog. In it, he notes his concerns about the upcoming BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall and offers advice about how to avoid problems by looking at previous … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Alexander Larman, BBC, Jack Whitehall, James Wood, TLS, William Boyd
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Waugh, Boyd and Manning
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic  and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged AFR, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, William Boyd
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David Bowie, William Boyd and Evelyn Waugh: Art Hoaxers
Art Critic and Sportswriter Jasper Rees has posted an article on a blog called The Arts Desk in response to the death yesterday of David Bowie. According to Rees, Bowie and novelist William Boyd (both Waugh fans and art lovers) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Humo(u)r
Tagged Bruno Hat, David Bowie, Jasper Rees, Nat Tate, William Boyd
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