Vile Bodies and David Bowie Evelyn Waugh's Worst Mother Brideshead

Vile Bodies and David Bowie In conjunction with an international exhibition, David Bowie is, the performer’s archivist released a list of “Bowie’s 100 books,” which includes Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh. For more information, see Adam Sherwin, “From Homer to Orwell: David Bowie’s 100 favourite books revealed,” Independent, 1 October 2013. The exhibition has gone from London and Toronto; it is closing in São Paulo but opening in Berlin (May 2014), Chicago (Sept. 2014), Paris (March 2015), and Groningen (Dec. 2015). For more information, please go to the V&A. Evelyn Waugh’s Worst Mother In “Bad mothers in books: a literary litany,” published in the Guardian for 27 March 2014, Moira Redmond mentions Brenda Last in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust. Brideshead v. Noah and God’s Not Dead In “‘Noah’ and ‘God’s Not Dead’: Graceless and Clueless,” published in the Washington Post on 31 March 2014, Michael Gerson cites Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as a treatment of religious themes superior to those in two recent films. Joanna Trollope and Evelyn Waugh’s Skill On an episode of Mark Lawson Talks To…, broadcast on BBC4 on 23 March 2014, novelist Joanna Trollope said she had never inserted a real person in any of her fiction. To pull off such an “extraordinary accomplishment,” a writer would have to be “as skilled as Evelyn Waugh.” Waugh of course denied having portrayed people he knew. Bowra and Betjeman Jonathan Brewer published “Bowra and Betjeman: a Brief Study” in the John Betjeman Newsletter 76 (August 2009): 11. Maurice Bowra and Betjeman were friends of Evelyn Waugh. BBC Sword of Honour Wins Award Jeremy Front’s dramatization of Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh was named the Best Audio Drama (Adaptation) at the BBC Audio Drama Awards on 26 January 2014. The production was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the autumn of 2013. For more information, please go to “Winners of BBC Audio Drama Awards 2014 announced.” Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest

Mary Kathleen Reilly of the University of Delaware won the Ninth Annual Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest with her entry entitled “Place & Space in Waugh’s A Handful of Dust.” An edited version of her essay will appear in a forthcoming issue of EWS.

For the Tenth Annual Contest, sponsored by Evelyn Waugh Studies, undergraduates in any part of the world are eligible. The editorial board will judge submissions and award a prize