Book · 1933 · Africa, fiction
Scoop
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Favorite book or author other than yourself? Uh, I, I, I, I think it's, you know, it's a ridiculous question in many ways, but the book I can always read with pleasure and find a laugh on every page is Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.
The best things said about it
Well John last week talked about — uh a novel that he just read called schlump and in a kind of spasm of free association it led me to order — uh Evelyn W's great 1938 novel scoop.
That's like that uh evelynwa novel scoop where all the journalists get sent to the war zone and you know the main character gets there and there's no war.
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Why people recommend it
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh is a classic satirical novel that lampoons the chaotic world of journalism and foreign correspondence. On The Book Review, Greg Cowles discussed ordering the 1938 novel following a free-association conversation about another recently read book. Stephen Dubner raised the subject on Freakonomics Radio by asking Boris Johnson for his favorite author or book outside of his own work, to which Johnson responded that Waugh's novel was a text he could constantly reread with pleasure, finding humor on every single page and crediting it with inspiring his own initial desire to become a journalist. Later, on Timcast IRL, Ian Crossland referenced the plot of Waugh's novel to draw parallels between modern media frenzies surrounding unverified military alerts and the fictional narrative where journalists are dispatched to a foreign war zone only to discover that no actual conflict exists. Through these various podcast appearances, commentators and public figures have continuously returned to Waugh's sharp satire to illustrate the absurdities, herd mentalities, and exaggerations inherent in modern media reporting, cementing its enduring cultural relevance as a biting critique of journalistic sensationalism and foreign reporting over the decades.
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Boris Johnson Favorite book or author other than yourself? Uh, I, I, I, I think it's, you know, it's a ridiculous questio… 1
“Favorite book or author other than yourself? Uh, I, I, I, I think it's, you know, it's a ridiculous question in many ways, but the book I can always read with pleasure and find a laugh on every page is Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.”
Greg Cowles well John last week talked about — uh a novel that he just read called schlump and in a kind of spasm of fr… 1
“well John last week talked about — uh a novel that he just read called schlump and in a kind of spasm of free association it led me to order — uh Evelyn W's great 1938 novel scoop”
Ian Crossland that's like that uh evelynwa novel scoop where all the journalists get sent to the war zone and you know th… 1
“that's like that uh evelynwa novel scoop where all the journalists get sent to the war zone and you know the main character gets there and there's no war”
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And I met this fellow, Bill Deeds, who was the editor of the Daily Telegraph and was a revered figure in British journalism and had actually, in an earlier life, been the figure on which Evelyn Waugh had modeled one of the characters in his famous satirical novel called Scoop.”
“Which is the building that Evelyn Waugh describes in 'Scoop' with Lord Copper.”
“um you you'll remember last week um I was reading EVN wall scoop”