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Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley
is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of
mysteries, including national bestsellers Cinnamon
Kiss, Little Scarlet, and Bad Boy Brawly Brown;
the Fearless Jones series, including Fearless Jones,
Fear Itself, and Fear of the Dark; the novels
Blue Light and RL’s Dream; and two
collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow,
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he
received the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and Walkin’ the Dog.
Mosley has also written the erotic tale Killing Johnny
Fry and will soon release the enchanting noir novel
Diablerie.
He was born in Los Angeles and lives in New York.
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Urban Reviews: Start by
telling our readers about Blonde Faith.
Walter Mosley:
Blonde Faith is a
novel set in an age where every year is a new, not
necessarily easy, period in the life of Black Americans.
It's about how the world is changing so fast that many, and
most, can't keep up. It is a detective story of course.
There's a child without her father, a man missing, and a
woman dead. At the center of these crimes we find a
distraught Easy Rawlins trying to make the best of it in
spite of himself.
Urban Reviews: Is
this the last Easy Rawlins book or is there another one in
the works?
Walter Mosley:
This is certainly the last Easy
Rawlins novel. I've written eleven books on Easy and his
life. Three thousand pages more or less, all in first
person. I believe that my audience knows everything they
need about where Easy is from and where he has gone.
Urban Reviews: You
also have another book that will be released in January 2008
called Diablerie. Can you give us a sneak peak at this
novel?
Walter Mosley:
Diablerie is a crime novel not
a detective story. It's about a man who is living a tamped
down, loveless life in spite of the fact that he's married
and has a grown daughter. Twenty-plus years ago this man was
an alcoholic living in and around the Denver area. He drank
so much that he used to black out sometimes. He meets a
woman at a function his wife had made him attend. This woman
remembers him. She says that he committed a crime in her
company all those years ago. She worries that he is after
her and so overturns his life. The mystery is multi-layered:
Did he commit the crime? If so what crime was it? And
finally, even if he did do something wrong is he guilty?
Urban Reviews:
Diablerie and Killing Johnny Fry are your first erotic
works. What led you delve into erotica and can we expect
more erotic novels in the future?
Walter Mosley:
Diablerie isn't erotic
on the level of Killing Johnny Fry. I mean there's
some sex but that is not the dominant theme of the novel. I
may write another sex book but it seems to me that
Americans, on the whole, are not ready for their private
fantasies to be aired.
Urban Reviews: You
write across a broad spectrum of genres including
non-fiction , and science fiction. Do you have a favorite
genre that you like to write in?
Walter Mosley:
Genres have purpose. Each one
allows the author to delve into different ways of thinking
and seeing. Genres are at the service of the writer and
therefore grow or wane in importance in relation to the task
at hand.
Urban Reviews: Do
you have any other upcoming projects that you are currently
working on?
Walter Mosley:
In May 2008, I have a collection of
short stories coming out from Black Classics Press called
The Tempest Tales. In October 2008, the further
philosophical investigations of Socrates Fortlow are making
their appearance in The Right Mistake from Basic
Books. Sometime next year I will also have a new
mystery with a new detective coming out and a literary novel
about a very, very old Black Man titled The Last Days of
Ptolemy Gray.
Urban Reviews: What
changes have you seen in the African American Fiction
literary industry since your very first novel?
Walter Mosley:
When I started writing there were very
few Black writers being published. It was a hard market to
crack and you had to appeal to a white audience even to get
considered. Since then we have entered every market and have
grown the industry, at least in our own communities.
Urban Reviews: Do
you have any favorite authors or books?
Walter Mosley:
Jack Kirby, Albert Canus, Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, Richard Wright, Michael Moorcock, Samuel
Delaney, Octavia Butler, George Eliot…it goes on forever.
Urban Reviews: What
advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Walter Mosley:
Write on your novel, short story, or
poem every day.
Urban Reviews: Is
there anything that you know now that you wish you would
have known at the beginning of your career?
Walter Mosley:
Not really. Life is a learning
process. Shortcuts lead much more quickly to oblivion.
Urban Reviews: Name
one thing that the world does not know about Walter
Mosley-the person?
Walter Mosley:
My life, ultimately, is like a pane of
glass: clear as day and therefore unseen.
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