by NRB | 8 Jun 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
‘The film wasn’t as good as the book.’ How often have you heard it? The phrase set me thinking that there should be three categories for the discussion – film worse than book, film as good as book and film better than book. Off the top of my head I can propose three...
by NRB | 1 Jun 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Why am I wandering round my workroom putting books back on shelves and filing documents? Why I am rearranging books for God’s sake, and putting pens back in jars and screwing up scrap paper? Why am I drifting away to consult the Foxtel mag to see if there are movies I...
by NRB | 24 May 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I was the literary editor of the National Times for almost three years, from 1979 to 1981. I was given the job by Anne Summers who had held it for some time and for whom I’d written a few book reviews. She was a top-flight journalist who had published her feminist...
by NRB | 14 May 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Popular Australian writers of the 30s, 40s and 50s rarely appeared in public, were heard on radio or seen in the early days of television. Writers like Arthur Upfield, Nevil Shute and Frank Clune did not give readings or talks. One of the most popular writers in the...
by Jean Bedford | 3 May 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I doubt there is any precinct in Sydney better supplied with new and second-hand bookshops than Newtown. There are hundreds of thousands of second-hand books at Gould’s bookshop in King Street. Going south, Berkelouw’s Books is just 50 metres off the main drag in...
by NRB | 23 Mar 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
From time to time writers are asked to give endorsements for forthcoming books. These are called straplines in the trade. You know the sort of thing: ‘This out-swashes and out-buckles Bernard Cornwall’. Often the publishers make the request on behalf of a debut...