by NRB | 5 Feb 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Responding to my column about execution songs, an NRB reader made some suggestions and remarked that, for train songs, there were ‘300 and counting’. I’m sure there is a list somewhere on the web but I’m contenting myself with a few that I’ve become aware of over the...
by NRB | 4 Jul 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
For no particular reason I can think of I recently experienced a wish to listen to Buddy Holly. I’d had some singles and a vinyl ‘best of’, but that was a long time ago. I went to the HUM CD and DVD shop in Newtown thinking I’d have to order an album in. As everyone...
by NRB | 2 Nov 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Getting titles right is important. I remember a stand-up comic speculating on how novels with titles like Mister Zhivago or The Sun also Sets would have fared. How about Lucky James? The working title I had for the first Cliff Hardy book was so bad it could have...
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