You can't really blame him, can you? As Waugh amply demonstrates in Scoop, journalism is a venal, duplicitous business, powered by ego and vanity. Pity, then, those of us who love it.

Endlessly evocative, Evelyn Waugh's hymn to a vanished age of aristocracy ... Evelyn, who also wrote the 1938 classic Scoop, regarded the novel, published in 1945, as his ‘magnum opus’ and ...

But in 1938, British novelist and occasional newspaperman Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) turned the dagger deliciously inward with “Scoop,” a raucous lampoon of his fellow ink-stained wretches.

and recalling some of the attributes with which Evelyn Waugh endowed his characters in Scoop, I have formed ideas of my own on how he composed his portraits. In common with almost all great ...

5. Evelyn Waugh based his novel Scoop on his career as a journalist. In 1935, Waugh and approximately 100 other journalists arrived in Abyssinia to cover the invasion of Benito Mussolini’s ...

SCOOP—Evelyn Waugh—Little, Brown ($2.50). Evelyn Waugh (pronounced Waw) is the Erskine Caldwell of the British upper classes. The feeble-minded baronets that he pictured in Vile Bodies and ...

“Pure Evelyn Waugh.” The expression evokes a riotously ... gives the movies the treatment Waugh gave the press in Scoop. “Love Among the Ruins” is Waugh’s nightmarish vision of the ...

Joseph Kanon, author of the best-selling thrillers “The Good German” and “Leaving Berlin,” is an unabashed admirer of Evelyn Waugh ... “Vile Bodies” and “Scoop,” and the more ...

It spoils nothing to say that Boot gets the scoop in the end. Not that it matters. He wants only to be home, writing of "maternal rodents [who] pilot their furry brood through the stubble." You can't ...