Just finished When the Going was Good by Evelyn Waugh. Loved it. I'd already read all of his fiction, most of it several times, but this was the first time I'd read this account of his travels in the 1930s. At one point he was a war correspondent in Abyssinia, and his real life adventures there, which inspired Scoop, were no less surreal and absurd than the fictional account he confected later. It was a delightful revelation to find the source.
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