Book review: The Right Mistake will get you thinking Nov 10, 2008
The Right Mistake by Walter Mosley, c. 2008, Basic Civitas, 23, 280 pages ... In the new novel The Right Mistake, by Walter Mosley, a man fixes something that s wrong in his community ... I was hooked, and author Walter Mosley had me rapt. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Joseph McCrindle, founded Transatlantic Review; at 85 Jul 19, 2008
Its annual prize to promising creative writing students has gone to A.M. Homes, Walter Mosley, Mona Simpson, and Ethan Canin, among others. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Bright Shiny Morning Jun 16, 2008
As far as novelists who have re-imagined LA itself are concerned, Walter Mosley in the Easy Rawlins novels provides a fine example of what can be achieved in terms of telling details and atmosphere. Frey tells us a fair bit about causes and dimensions of the notoriously thick LA smog, but this reader was never brought close enough to catch a whiff of it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Opinion: Post-graduation, all BHS students are not equal Jun 12, 2008
After examining the above list, I played Easy Rawlins, the black private detective featured in Walter Mosley s mystery thrillers, for an hour and came up with these questions: (1) Last year around this same time, there were a slew of acceptance letters posted outside of the METCO office of the students heading off to college. Where are those letters this year. (Brookline TAB, MA)
6 Questions: Horry could've been math teacher May 15, 2008
Everything by Walter Mosley. Im a big fan of his. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Five signs he's not interested May 7, 2008
Hello Kym I finally read Walter Mosley s Blonde Faith I am so disappointed with the ending ... looks like Walter Mosley is going a different route. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
LA Times Festval of Books Apr 20, 2008
Walter Mosley in Conversation with Michael Silverblatt. State of Crisis: Can Government Work. (Suite101.com)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The torch is passed to San Francisco Apr 8, 2008
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Lost History of Cambodian Dance Featured on Publishers Weekly Cover Feb 29, 2008
On the Small Press Month website , Walter Mosley, author and long-time supporter of independent publishing says "The life's blood of contemporary and modern literature is in the custodianship of so-called small publishers. Without them, there is no future for literature.". The importance of independently published books is clear. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
'Debaters' dominates Image Awards Feb 15, 2008
LITERATURE CATEGORIES Outstanding Literary Work -- Fiction "Blonde Faith" -- Walter Mosley (Little, Brown ny). Outstanding Literary Work -- Non-Fiction "Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond" -- Don Cheadle, John Prendergast (Hyperion). (Variety)
Winners of the 39th annual NAACP Image Awards Feb 15, 2008
LITERATURE CATEGORIES:Fiction: "Blonde Faith," Walter Mosley. Non-fiction: "Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond," Don Cheadle, John Prendergast. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Celtic pride in Dallas; anyone for pi? Feb 11, 2008
Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins mysteries debuted in 1990, is scheduled to appear in Charlottesville, Va ... Other writers at the festival include Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins mystery series and other novels (March 30), and Marc Estrin, author of "Lamentations of Julius Marantz" (Unbridled, 2007) and part of a panel called "Nice Jewish Boys Gone Wild," on March 29. (Boston Globe)
Prince's late 3 lifts Pistons; unusual triple-double for Kobe Feb 1, 2008
As is his tradition, Jackson handed out books to each player and Odom received Cinnamon Kiss, by Walter Mosley. Also on this story. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Walter Mosley's 'Diablerie' delves into depths of darkness Jan 24, 2008
DiablerieBy Walter Mosley, Bloomsbury, 180 pp ... Throughout his heralded mysteries, author Walter Mosley has ventured into the pitch-black corners of the human soul. (Boston Globe)
This Day in History Jan 12, 2008
Writer Walter Mosley is 56. Radio personality Howard Stern is 54. (Montana Standard, MT)
NAACP honors best of year Jan 9, 2008
Literary Work - Fiction"Blonde Faith" - Walter Mosley (Little, Brown ny)"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" - Junot Diaz (Penguin/Riverhead)"Cion: A Novel" - Zakes Mda (Picador)"Knots" - Nuruddin Farah (Penguin/Riverhead)"New England White: A Novel" - Stephen L. Carter (Alfred A. Knopf/RH) ... Literary Work - Instructional"The Covenant in Action" - Tavis Smiley (Smiley Books)"Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success" - Russell Simmons (Penguin/Gotham)"Get... (Variety)
Today in History-Jan 12 Jan 1, 2008
Writer Walter Mosley is 56. Country singer Ricky Van Shelton is 56. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Sundance taps 13 for writing lab Dec 14, 2007
The group of creative advisers includes Kasi Lemmons, Walter Mosley, Christopher McQuarrie and Thomas Vinterberg. "We are thrilled to be supporting such an eclectic and singular group of filmmakers from the U.S. and around the world," said Michelle Satter, director of the Feature Film Program. (Variety)
Book buzz: 'U' spoke up about Grafton's next title Dec 13, 2007
Walter Mosley, best known for his 10-book Easy Rawlins series set in mid-20th-century L.A., is moving on. He has a deal for two novels in a new series about Leonid McGill, also a black private eye. (USA Today -- Life)
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New Sleuth From Walter Mosley Dec 11, 2007
Mystery writer Walter Mosley has agreed to write three novels for Riverhead Books, two of which will feature McGill, a sleuth based in New York City ... "I've long thought of Walter Mosley as one of the great American writers," Riverhead executive editor Sean McDonald said in a statement Monday. (Newsmax)
In Mosley's mysteries, a history of race relations in the US Nov 15, 2007
Walter Mosley has written the final mystery in his Easy Rawlins series ... The book was "Devil in a Blue Dress," the 1990 tale that launched a best-selling crime series by Walter Mosley. (Boston Globe)
Mosley doesn't take the easy way out Nov 5, 2007
99), the 10th Walter Mosley mysteries featuring Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, could well be the last. Mosley has suggested as much. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Call it what you want Oct 30, 2007
Where you'll find me on a Friday night: cooking and playing cards with friends, dining at a new restaurant or. A 34 year-old transplant to metro Atlanta who has found her dating experience here. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Hachette Book Group USA is First to Provide its eBook Content in New Universal .epub Format Oct 27, 2007
Its bestselling authors include Ansel Adams, David Baldacci, Marc Brown, Michael Connelly, Nelson DeMille, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Kiyosaki, Walter Mosley, Joyce Meyer, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Nicholas Sparks, Cecily von Ziegesar, and Paula White. Hachette Book Group also sells and distributes books for other publishers and has a state of the art warehouse in Indiana and customer service operations in Boston. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Book roundup: Mysteries Oct 25, 2007
In this 10th and what Walter Mosley says could be the last Easy Rawlins mystery, the affable Los Angeles detective is searching for two friends who are in deep trouble ... Could Blonde Faith be Walter Mosley's last Easy Rawlins book. (USA Today -- Life)
Bestsellers list Oct 24, 2007
Blonde Faith Walter Mosley, Little Brown, $25. 99, 9780316734592 Easy Rawlins in racially charged 1967 Los Angeles. (Scranton Times, PA)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers Oct. 21 Oct 22, 2007
BLONDE FAITH, Walter Mosley (320 pages; Little, Brown; $25. 99): In the latest installment in the Easy Rollins series, the detective searches for two missing friends while dealing with his lover's decision to marry another man. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A study in feminism Oct 18, 2007
by Blair Underwood and Walter Mosley s Cinnamon Kiss ... Kym Yeah, I need to catch up on some Walter Mosley. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
New Rawlins mystery 'Blonde Faith' goes down nice and easy Oct 11, 2007
Blonde Faith, By Walter Mosley, Little, Brown, 308 pp ... Walter Mosley dedicates his latest novel, "Blonde Faith," to August Wilson, yet all of Mosley's Easy Rawlins mysteries have unfolded as a kind of nod to the works of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. (Boston Globe)
REQUIRED READING Oct 7, 2007
Inspired by Holocaust research for his first book, The Bielski Brothers," journalist Duffy thought of his great-great-grandfathers who fled Ireland in the Great Famine, wondering what they witnessed. Here, he looks at the Famine through the assassination of Mahon, a notorious landlord whose death resulted in great public controversy.Blonde Faithby Walter Mosley (Little, Brown)While Mosely told Ebony magazine this might be it for his Los Angeles gumshoe, it may not be so easy to finish off... (New York Post -- Opinions)
New in paper: Fiction & non-fiction Sep 6, 2007
Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley (Back Bay Books, $13. 99, reprint). (USA Today -- Life)
Fall books preview: Here's what's big and why Sep 6, 2007
Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown, $25. 99, Oct. 10). (USA Today)
Race, the final frontier Jul 31, 2007
That small group includes veteran Samuel R. Delany and the late Octavia Butler, as well as younger voices such as Nalo Hopkinson, Steven Barnes, and Tananarive Due, and respected writers who have also dabbled in speculative fiction such as Walter Mosley and the late W.E.B. Du Bois. It's an area of fiction that has allowed writers to tackle sensitive issues of race and culture. (Boston Globe)
Dial Ms. for murder Jul 22, 2007
So much so that you wonder how people can even mention writers Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, or Walter Mosley in the same breath. What "The Water's Lovely" and other books in the public eye this year make evident is that when it comes to killers and other criminals, the best of the visionaries these days are women, and foreign females in particular. (Boston Globe)
A novel birth Jul 5, 2007
She has to be able to think in that unhurried, meandering, half-passive fashion that Walter Mosley describes as "gathering smoke", all the time waiting with the utmost attention to pounce on the stray image, the corner of an idea, the trailing threads of story. It's a kind of concentrated dreaming that is all but impossible to achieve while a child is tugging at your legs or trying to gnaw your watch with his single tooth. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Underwood in role of author Jun 28, 2007
With a noir mix of murder, mayhem and sex, "it's like Walter Mosley meets Zane," says the Sex and the City co-star. "It's great summer reading.". (USA Today -- Life)
Los Angeles Times Celebrates Biggest Festival of Books in 12 Year History May 5, 2007
The Festival brought together its largest and most eclectic gathering of literary stars thus far, including Dr. Phil McGraw, Tim Gunn, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julie Andrews Edwards, Walter Mosley, Arianna Huffington, Ellen Burstyn, T.C. Boyle, Mary Higgins Clark, Gore Vidal, and Ray Bradbury. 463 authors participated in book readings and signings and made appearances on one of the 100 discussion panels. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Sex novel writer is feeling the heat Apr 16, 2007
Walter Mosley gets backlash for what critics call porn ... April 16, 2007 Walter Mosley's latest book, "Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel," was greeted by some of the worst, most hostile reviews of the writer's career ... When Walter Mosley will speak at Adelphi University's Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, 1 South Ave., Garden City, at 7:30 Monday. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
The power of 10 Apr 6, 2007
-- Walter Mosley presents "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man," directed by Lian Lunson, a look at the songs, poetry and life of one of music's most loved and influential songwriters with performances of Cohen's work by contemporary artists; 2:45 p.m. April 13, Fletcher Hall, Carolina Theatre. -- Mira Nair selected "Battle of Algiers," directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, a rendering of the Algerian guerrilla struggle against the French colonialists in the 1950s; 6 p.m. April 13, Fletcher Hall, Carolina... (Herald Sun)
Ex-wife sues Mosley for share of income Mar 31, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) -- Walter Mosley, author of "Devil in a Blue Dress," is being sued by his ex-wife for money she says he agreed to pay out of income from several of his books. Joy Kellman says in court papers that Mosley owes her at least $500,000, plus interest, from earnings on 11 books as provided by their divorce agreement. (KnoxNews, KY)
People: Halle Berry, Bono, Britney Spears Mar 31, 2007
The Irish rock star Bono became a knight of the British Empire this week, The Associated Press reported. "You have permission to call me anything you want - except sir, all right?" he said after the lighthearted ceremony in Dublin at the home of the British ambassador, David Reddaway. (International Herald Tribune)
I tell ya, no respect Mar 25, 2007
Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman moderated the discussion with novelist Walter Mosley; Publishers Weekly Reviews Director Louisa Ermelino; Little, Brown executive editor Reagan Arthur; and Entertainment Weekly book editor Thom Geier. Grossman lamented the plot predictability and overall poor quality of much mass-market fiction. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Divorce As A Spectator Sport Mar 11, 2007
"People think I'm an expert on divorce, but I've been happily married for half a century. I just listen to people's stories and write." Adler was a guest at Marymount Manhattan College Writing Center's dinner at Doubles the other night, where Gloria Steinem was honored before the likes of Marianne Strong, Dominick Dunne, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Bruce Jay Friedman, Harold Evans, Denise LeFrak, Mario Buatta and Eliza beth Strong Cuevas. Adler said he'd... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Depths of desire Mar 3, 2007
Maxim Jakubowski joins Walter Mosley on his first foray into erotic fiction, Killing Johnny Fry ... Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley 280pp, Bloomsbury, 10 ... Walter Mosley has cemented his reputation with uncompromising crime novels, as well as being a leading polemicist on race and politics. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Smarts Galore Feb 25, 2007
February 25, 2007 -- LEWIS Burke Frumkes got an ovation the other night at the annual Marymount Manhattan College Writing Center dinner at Doubles when he introduced guest of honor Gloria Steinem by saying, "This is what smart looks like." The literati included Dominick Dunne, Mary Higgins Clark, Ben Cheever, John Simon, Erica Jong, Walter Mosley, Anthony Haden-Guest, Donald Westlake, Tama Janowitz, Leila Hadley Luce and Jill Krementz. . (New York Post -- Gossip)
El Paso claims one of the first black voters Feb 18, 2007
Today: Author Walter Mosley, Page A5. Monday: Speed skater Shani Davis. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
More of this story Feb 10, 2007
It's more high-profile names on Thursday, Feb. 15, when Walter Mosley and John Rechy discuss erotic literature with fellow author and moderator Marsha Kinder in a program titled "Between the Sheets: Sex, Literature, and the Future of Erotic Fiction." Although both events are full, standby tickets will be available at the door beginning one hour prior to the program. Also of note: The Feb. 13 appearance by novelist Elif Shafak has been cancelled. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Just Say 'Sex' Feb 9, 2007
JUST SAY 'SEX' - Pagesix - New York Post Online Edition. Friday, February 09, 2007 Last Update: 12:10 PM EST. (New York Post -- Gossip)
10 guest curators pick films for festival Feb 7, 2007
-- Writer Walter Mosley decided on Lian Lunson's "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man.". -- Filmmaker Michael Moore's choice, Kazuo Hara's "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on," provides a look at World War II from a Japanese director's perspective. (Herald Sun)
Scarlett made Cameron see red Jan 12, 2007
Birthdays: Actress Luise Rainer (97), country singer Ray Price (81), singer Glenn Yarborough (77), the Amazing Kreskin (72), country singer William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys (68), former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier (63), singer-musician George Duke (61), rock musician Cynthia Robinson of Sly and the Family Stone (61), actor Anthony Andrews (59), movie director Wayne Wang (58), radio commentator Rush Limbaugh (56), actress Kirstie Alley (56), writer Walter Mosley (55), country... (Contra Costa Times)
Volumes of anticipation for Harry Potter and Turkish novel among year's new books Jan 10, 2007
Walter Mosley again steps away from the mystery genre this month with "Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel" -- yes, it has a subtitle -- about a man betrayed by his girlfriend who responds by pulling out the stops on sexual exploration. Irishman John Banville's first suspense thriller, under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, is called "Christine Falls" (March). (Boston Globe -- Living)
10 ways to keep your resolution to read more Jan 9, 2007
"Killing Johnny Fry" by Walter Mosley (Bloomsbury, $23. 95). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
