... <afpv@...> ... 1903. ... There are far too many 'Waughisms'. I do not think they add one iota to his standing. In fact, I would say that he always comes...
Volume three of The Paris Review Interviews, published last week, reprints interviews with sixteen authors, including a 1962 one of EW by Julian Jebb. The book...
I am reading the diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon (1897-1958), Tory MP and socialite. Evelyn Waugh appears twice. 16 December 1934 Also at lunch [with...
The Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy of the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, is sponsoring a public event, "Lunch,...
The filmed remake of Brideshead has been released on DVD in the U.S. There have been several comments on the film about which the less said the better. The...
I forgot to mention that there is a commentary available by the people who made the film but I couldn't bear watching it thru again so couldn't say whether it...
Waugh figures prominently in the Guardian's current series of 1000 novels lifetime reading list. Yesterday was the day for Comic novels and Waugh scored top...
In its final list (novels about war) the Guardian includee Men at Arms and Put Out More Flags. In a separate article Christopher Hitchens cites the Sword of...
OK. Since there were no volunteers, I cracked the Guardian posting system and posted the comment below on their 1000 novel blog. They seem to be replying to...
Hi Jeffery, Thanks for all your comments. I'm quite impressed the breadth and depth of your knowledge of Mr. Waugh. I must confess that I am not as well read...
I think the new film suffers in comparison to the Granada TV version. It is less well written and acted. It is of course necessarily shorter and were it not...
The Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin highlights on its February news page an item from EW's library, the very peculiar "Victorian Blood...
Good morning (or may be evening), I'm a Russian student writing a bachelor thesis on Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead revisited". There are some places in the book...
Dear Julia, Quickly-The Author's note is about Waugh saying that the characters in his novels aren't specifically based on individual persons-he didn't base...
The following query was posted on the Anthony Powell blog. No one there seems to have come up with the answer. Do we know? If I had to guess it would be...
I think it likely that one reason Waugh chose the name Crouchback is for the flavor it conveys of an old, distinguished, English family. Someone with an...
At the moment I am writing my university dissertation on satire in Decline and Fall, Handful of Dust, Brideshead and The Loved One. I am addressing why Waugh...
I don't think this book list got posted back in January. It lists 100 novels the paper thinks everyone should read. Scoop is #18. No writer seems to get...
In the novel the fictional Crouchbacks held their land at Broome which "stretched undiminished and unencumbered from the Quantocks to the Blackdown Hills" (a...
A short essay by Milo Yiannopoulos on Helena in the Catholic Herald asserts, "Waugh apparently regarded Helena as his finest work." Do we have a source for...
... In the biography by Christopher Sykes, Waugh is quoted as saying "It's far the best book I have ever written or ever will write." Sykes concedes that...
For some time the Guardian has been running a column called 10 of the Best. The subject of each column seems somewhat randomly chosen by the columnist John...
A review by Anthony Kenny in the Times (London) of the new biography by Leslie Mitchell of Maurice Bowra, the Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and the...
The Times has issued another series of lists--this time they post the top 10 one hit wonders, the top ten 2nd novel successes and the top 10 2nd novel flops....
My daughter is going to be working on her Master's degree in Oxford this summer. I will be with her during the month of June. I would like to construct a...
His boyhood home at 145 North End Road is still there with a bBlue Plaque. It's a short walk from the Golders Green Station on the Northern Line. The...
... In addition to Jeff's suggestions, you should stop by the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, Mayfair, where Waugh married Laura Herbert....
... Twenty years ago I was interviewed for a place at Hertford College, Oxford, in Waugh's old rooms, I was given to understand, on the ground floor facing...
If you'd care to make a trip to North Wales you could visit Arnold House, where for a few months in 1925 EW unhappily played the role of schoolmaster. As far...
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