by NRB | 24 Nov 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve written about meeting (and almost meeting) Australian prime ministers, and it occurred to me to make a list of notable people I’ve met in other walks of life. This isn’t to big-note myself but just an exercise of Socrates’s axiom that the unexamined life is not...
by NRB | 27 Jan 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I got a phone call from my agent. This was unusual. Usually she emails me along these lines: ‘Dear Peter (we like to observe the formalities. ‘I’ve just processed a royalty from a set of your e-books. I’m sorry it’s so little but …’ I’ll reply thanking her and telling...
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