SUMMARY: Brideshead Revisited in a Nutshell (JOSEPH PEARCE, 9/24/22, Crisis) ESSAY: Why we should venerate Evelyn Waugh: Waugh was unquestionably among the greatest novelists of the 20th century (Chilton Williamson, Jr., October 12, 2021, The Spectator)

ESSAY: HELENA, JULIAN AND ATTILA: THE TWILIGHT OF ROME IN 20TH-CENTURY FICTION (Edmund Racher, 2/20/23, Antigone) ESSAY: Guy Crouchback: Evelyn Waugh’s Hosea (Dwight Longenecker, March 13th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)

Sissman, Atlantic Monthly,įrom The Road to Damascus: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fifteen ConvertsĮvelyn Waugh on the Changes in the Mass (1965, Latin Mass Magazine)Īn Interview With Evelyn Waugh (HARVEY BREIT, NY Times, March 13, 1949) : Evelyn Waugh : The Height of His Powers (L.E. : Evelyn Waugh : The Best and the Wost ( Charles J. 2000: Waugh, Evelyn ArthurĮvelyn Waugh, Satirical Novelist, Is Dead at 62 (Special to The Newġ00 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY: #97 Evelyn Waugh (DAILY CATHOLIC)Įvelyn Waugh-Catholic Convert & Writer (St. Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th CenturyĬolumbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. So begins Scoop, Waugh's exuberant comedy of mistaken identity and brilliantly irreverent satire of the hectic pursuit of hot news.Įdited with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens for Penguin Classics, this is perhaps the funniest novel ever written about journalism, from one of the Twentieth-Century’s most gifted writers.See also: Evelyn Waugh ( 5 books reviewed)

That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters.

That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. I read the newspapers with lively interest.

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh