Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop, to which this website owes its very name, The Daily Beast, remains even after all these years the classic satire of the media. In a hilarious case of mistaken identity, William Boot, a feckless nature columnist for the aforementioned newspaper, is dispatched to the African country of Ishmaelia to cover a rebellion there.Waugh’s funniest book, which is to say: as funny as it gets.
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