Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead “Thorough” is the first word I would use to describe this biography. Intense, assured, incisive. America had Hemingway and Fitzgerald, while England had Waugh and Wodehouse. Wodehouse found the whole scene rather silly and made hysterical fun of it. Waugh, on the other hand, had a more…
REVIEW: BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE
Considering my obsession with this period in history, and some of its tenants, I cannot believe it took me so long to find this book. I have heard, anecdotally, of the Bright Young People but I knew little about their specifics. Even with this marvelous history as a guide, they are still a fluid, amorphous…