Does anyone know if Waugh ever wrote reviews or essays on George Meredith, Anthony Trollope or Thomas Love Peacock? Quite a few of their books are held in the...
A one-hour radio adaptation of "The Loved One" will be broadcast on Radio 4 in the UK tomorrow, Saturday 17th February, 2:30-3:30 p.m. The Radio 4 e-mail...
Hullo All, Does anyone have any idea why Evelyn Waugh disliked Winston Churchill so much? I have read many of his anti-Churchill comments and I was quite...
... Not to be a bore, but I published an essay on Waugh and Churchill in the recent collection _Waugh without End: New Trends in Evelyn Waugh Studies_ (Peter...
In this week's Spectator Alam Massie has an article (see link but act quickly as it will last only one week) about novels written in the first person singular....
You can now register for the Evelyn Waugh Conference at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, 21-24 May 2008. The...
I've been reading alot of P.G. Wodehouse lately, at first because of Waugh's glowing appraisal of him, and now just for its own sake. I have been very struck...
The BBC will next week begin a four part broadcast of The Diary of a Nobody, considered by Evelyn Waugh to be the "funniest book in the world." EAR 85 (from a...
Hi, I just joined the group and was wondering what aspect of Waugh's work were we exploring? ... Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green...
... work were we exploring? Hi, I've been on the list for a couple of months. It seems to be mostly the occassional question with a few replies, along with ...
I have always been curious as to Wuagh's use of Catholic 'authorities' is Brideshead and also in The Sword of Honour. Faith seems to affect different people in...
The Times newspaper's online edition is running a series of videos by Clive James based on his recent book Cultural Amnesia. This week's 15 minute production...
... The link I posted doesn't seem to work so just google Timesonline and click Arts and Entertainment from the menu, then click Books and you'll see a box ...
The BBC Radio 4 audio interview website currently features approximately 17 minutes of extracts from an EW interview by John Freeman on June 18, 1960. The...
... ways. Bridey becomes insufferable because of his faith and Lord Marchmain and Sebastian seem positively cursed. Julia seems unable to find happiness due to...
Here's the conclusion to a review in this week's New Statesman of a book by David Kynaston entitled Austerity Britain 1945-51: A couple of months before the...
Here's a link to the review by Christopher Hitchens of Alexander Waugh's book Fathers and Sons in today's New York Times. The book itself is now published in...
... published in a US edition and is well woth reading. Dear All- I second Jeff's position. It is an excellent book and at times laugh-out-loud funny. Below is...
Next year's Evelyn Waugh Conference is to held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, 21-24 May 2008. The June 4...
Jeff Manley writes: In today's NY Times (June 13, 2007) there is a story about Tony Blair's parting shot at British journalists in which he refers to them as...
I think it is generally true that in the US journalists are given more slack (or at least accord themselves more importance) than their confreres in Britain...
The NYTimes runs another review of Alexander Waugh's book in today's edition. This is by one of their regular book reviewers, Michiko Kakutani. It is a...
... today's edition. I think the reviewer makes a wee mistake in saying that Arthur Waugh's favoritism led him to send Alec 'to a posh boarding school while...
A recent discovery: Mark Gerson describes his 1959 and 1963 visits to Combe Florey to photograph Evelyn Waugh. "He opened a bottle of claret and puffed at a ...
Frances Donaldson's "Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour" (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985): contains the following passage (p. 50): When Jack...
I think the article in question is E. R. F. Sheehan, "Weekend with Waugh," Cornhill (Summer 1960): 209-25. It doesn't seem to be available online. I'm away...
According to the FictionMags Index it is: The Cornhill Magazine [No. 1024, Summer 1960] ed. Anon. (John Murray); Details taken from photocopy of Table of...
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