Word: waughs
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...Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings, the acclaimed biographer of the novelists Evelyn Waugh and Rosamond Lehmann, has written a magnificent, gripping account of the contrarieties that were held together in Maugham's personality. An aloof, private socialite; a socialist patriot who loved titles and the aristocracy; one of the most famous writers on both sides of the Atlantic for half a century but never recognized by the critical intelligentsia. Hastings exposes the polarities. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...London. Those who want to maximize the experience can now do so in a wallet-friendly way, by booking a college room for the night. Lord Sebastian Flyte might well have sniffed at the thought of tourists tramping across quadrangles and up worn oak staircases - and his creator Evelyn Waugh undoubtedly so - but with accommodation from just $58 a night, it's an attractive prospect for travelers looking for their own little slice of Brideshead Revisited. It certainly beats paying over the odds for a city-center hotel room or ending up in some suburban...
...hope. President-elect Barack Obama has indicated a willingness to discuss with Raul Castro the repeal of bans on Cuban-American travel and remittances-gestures that could ultimately lead to scrapping the trade embargo. For aficionados, that would be a welcome tonic for the grim times ahead. As Evelyn Waugh said, "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana cigar...
...stop him from seeing her through three abortions and being, in his alarming words, "very violent with her for two days with my hand," but it does bring home how women could see something redeeming and inchoate beneath the mask of a curmudgeon who seemed determined to play Evelyn Waugh in brownface...
...board, who's married to James, an obscure literary novelist who has just authored a massive best seller. A few floors up, another writer, Philip, a Pulitzer winner who has fallen on hard times (he's at work on a screenplay titled--in a nod to Waugh--Bridesmaids Revisited), is sleeping with his 22-year-old gold-digging assistant, Lola, a viciously, flawlessly drawn avatar of the rising generation of postfeminist girl-women. But Philip still yearns for an old flame: Schiffer, an Oscar-winning actress whose new TV show is turning out to be a smash hit. Among these...