Tag: Evelyn Waugh

March 28, 2018 / Vickie Lester

This is a purely fanciful tale, a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high living of a brief visit to Hollywood.

I have a thing about how Los Angeles is portrayed on film and in books. An author who makes me laugh, perhaps because of his dour satiric streak, is Evelyn Waugh. He visited Hollywood in 1947 to discuss a film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, loathed the place, and ended up…

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January 1, 2016 / Vickie Lester

A few more chapters of #itsinhiskissbyvickielester and you’ll begin to see which Hollywood royals I’m talking about…

Evelyn Waugh based “Brideshead Revisited” on family friends, the Lygons, children of Lord Beauchamp — a man who was driven into exile from his stately home (and country) by his Catholic wife for a series of dalliances with his butler, valet, etc. — but his children stayed forever true. We’re…

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July 24, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 30, Evelyn Waugh

INTERVIEWER I gather from what you said earlier that you don’t find the act of writing difficult. WAUGH I don’t find it easy. You see, there are always words going round in my head: Some people think in pictures, some in ideas. I think entirely in words. By the time…

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