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...controversy surrounding Martin Amis' new book (Harmony; 374 pages; $24) has far overshadowed the novel, a meditation on envy that TIME book reviewer R. Z. Sheppard says "Evelyn Waugh might have written were he resurrected as a Monty Python." The flap is about Amis himself, a middle age writer who in earlier novels mocked ambition and avarice and who recently displayed ambition and avarice of his own. Amis got an advance of nearly $800,000 for "The Information," and encountered some serious jealousy in British publishing circles. As for the book itself, Sheppard says Amis has reached his limits...
...found myself in a world I knew nothing about," Potok said of his first encounter with an alien Anglo-culture in the novels of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce...
DIED. EVELYN NIGHTINGALE, 90, first wife of acid-penned novelist Evelyn Waugh; in London. Within a year of their 1928 marriage, "She-Evelyn" revealed to + "He-Evelyn" her affair with the man who became her next husband. Waugh's revenge became a part of literary history: the adulterous Lady Brenda Last in A Handful of Dust was modeled after his unfaithful wife, as were two other characters in later works...
...Harold Brodkey, Alison Lurie, Robert Bly and Robert Creeley. By sophomore year O'Hara and Edward Gorey, his roommate at Eliot House, occupied the center of a flourishing artistic and social scene whose campy, brittle style was a bald rip-off of Oscar Wilde and characters out of Evelyn Waugh and Ivy Compton-Burnett...
This little tale tells us a good deal about the way journalists live now. It reminds us yet again of the death of the press lords -- the Hearsts, the Luces, the Lord Copper of Evelyn Waugh's barely fictional Fleet Street -- men who knew their own opinions and imposed them on the media they ran. Rupert Murdoch, buccaneer owner of Fox and much else of the world's communications business, seemed to be a throwback to those spacious days (spacious for owners). But even his empire is so segmented and authority in it so delegated that the people...