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Hitchens pointed out that if followers of George Bernard Shaw are called Shavians, then admirers of Evelyn Waugh should be called Wavians. I’m a Wavian, I still have my tattered orange Penguin paperbacks of Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief etc from college. They were not required reading in comparative lit, but I read them in class anyway, as an antidote to the teachers’ invisible tranquilizer darts. As a Wavian there is one thing I need to tell everyone who wanders onto this blog: Evelyn Waugh was a man.

Here’s a piece on Waugh by Anthony Lane. There’s a new book out on the Waugh family; haven’t read it.