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Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald | Book review

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:09:35 GMT

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Elizabeth Day is underwhelmed by Penelope Fitzgerald's sketchy tale of 60s bohemians Penelope Fitzgerald has been compared variously to DH Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and Martin Amis.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Books of the year: Biographies

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:18:08 GMT

True to Strachey's recommendation, the word "secret" seemed to be almost obligatory in the title itself for Selina Hastings' The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (John Murray, £25) and Paula Byrne's Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of...
Source: The Scotsman

The Utterly Idiotic Swiss Minaret Ban

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:04:36 GMT

• The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921, by Isaac Deutscher {Magnificient biography finally back in print, along with Volumes II and III.
Source: Snarksmith

Wauvian fantasy

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:31:58 GMT

Fantastic! Every word of every book, letter, note and diary entry that Evelyn Waugh wrote is to be reprinted by the Oxford University Press, the Londoner’s Diary reports. This news should not be exciting.
Source: Spectator Magazine

'James Whale Festival' at Film Forum

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:58:40 GMT

Idle and ailing, James Whale drowned himself in his swimming pool in 1957—shades of the obsolete Englishman-in-Hollywood from Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One. Whale's filmmaking career had come and gone with the 1930s, and was almost forgotten.
Source: Village Voice

Robert Wright's Self-Defeating Hasan Thesis

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:26 GMT

• The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921, by Isaac Deutscher {Magnificient biography finally back in print, along with Volumes II and III.
Source: Snarksmith

In My Room: Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:13:07 GMT

SPIN recently visited the Brooklyn apartment of Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig for the magazine's "In My Room" section, where we show off the decor and beloved possessions of your favorite rock'n'rollers.
Source: Spin

November 20, 2009: Ralph Wood Extended Interview

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:28:07 GMT

Read more of the interview with Baylor University theology and literature professor Ralph C. Wood, author of FLANNERY O’CONNOR AND THE CHRIST-HAUNTED SOUTH (Eerdmans, 2004): I had the great good fortune of going to a small Texas university called East...
Source: Thirteen NY Public Television

Quoted in 'Mary-Kay Wilmers: Queen of Plots'

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:23:04 GMT

Alan Bennett said in Times Online:

Outside the novels of Nancy Mitford or Evelyn Waugh ... I had never come across anyone who behaved so confidently or in such a cosmopolitan fashion.

The Loved One 1965 Milton Berle & Robert Morse Evelyn Waugh

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:51:30 GMT