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New American Editions of Evelyn Waugh Back Bay Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, published new hardcover, paperback, and Kindle editions of Evelyn Waugh’s fiction on 11 December 2012. An associated company, Hachette Audio, released audio versions of the same books on the same day. Titles include Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, Put Out More Flags, Brideshead Revisited (revised edition), The Loved One, Helena, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Unconditional Surrender [sic], Sword of Honor [sic], and The Complete Stories.
Evelyn Waugh Society The Waugh Society has 144 members. To join, please go to http://evelynwaughsociety.org/. The Evelyn Waugh Discussion List has 80 members. To join, please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh. The Evelyn Waugh Society is also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/evelynwaughsoc. The Waugh Society is providing RSS feed: http://evelynwaughsociety.org/feed. And the Waugh Society’s web site has opportunities for threaded discussions: http://evelynwaughsociety.org/forums/.
Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest Four entries have been received and are being judged in the Eighth Annual Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest, sponsored by Evelyn Waugh Studies. For the Ninth Annual Contest, undergraduates in any part of the world are eligible. The editorial board will judge submissions and award a prize of $250. Essays up to 5000 words on any aspect of the life or work of Evelyn Waugh should be submitted to Dr. John H. Wilson, preferably by e-mail at [email protected], or by post to Department of English, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven PA 17745, USA. The deadline is 31 December 2013.
The Later Work In the Slate Book Review for 30 November 2012, Jenny Hendrix published “The Lost, Unlovable Evelyn Waugh: Why are his later, Catholic novels so dismissed?”
Parody of the Liturgy In “DJ Taylor’s top 10 literary parodies,” published in the Guardian on 17 October 2012, the novelist includes Evelyn Waugh on the Catholic liturgy, specifically his vernacular version of Hail Mary, “Hiya Moll, you’re the tops …,” from his Diaries in September 1962 (785).
Childhood in Hampstead In “Novelist Evelyn Waugh’s adventures in Hampstead’s ‘pleasure garden,’” an article published in Ham & High for 12 January 2013, Adam Sonin reviews some of Waugh’s early experiences.