love this:

“But Mosley said the best part of his conversation with the Times was when he told the interviewer that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who wrote for Marvel and DC Comics, “are Jewish writers and they’re much more important” than Bellow and Roth.”

(for the record I love Henderson The Rain King and Sabbath’s Theater just as much as I love This Man, This Monster. Need it allllll.)

#comix #comics #comicbooks #JewishAuthors #WalterMosley

From: @theforward
https://mstdn.social/@theforward/109914886482936342

'I was struggling to update my corkboard when I read this exquisitely pulpy line: “Lawler was a New York blue blood who married a nouveau riche nobody named Constantine Psomas — a.k.a. the can man.” Warmth filled my guts like whiskey. I didn’t need a map. Mosley was driving me to Rikers in a cream-colored Bianchina, and Mingus was playing on the stereo. I was along for the ride.'

#WalterMosley #books #bookshelf

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/books/review/walter-mosley-every-man-a-king.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Book%20Review

America's not smart
Spellers can't think, can't spell
Mosley laments the trend

#waltermosley #americadumbening #education #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/06/magazine/walter-mosley-interview.html

Really good interview with Walter Mosley in upcoming NY Times magazine.
No paywall - my gift.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/06/magazine/walter-mosley-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=88AN_turXn_OKm_ag4Q_6K5hBDvUHVSDPBLajTLoczOFzbd3pIq4kHAdmXH-HKnA-eC74eudIvCXrNAIqBfyktZsiOMB5xNnrGqFW8e2kO36D0heTsMyLrkNbKyq67rRwce0J8QHgfKtQpP2jzw9YcjFNmcXT0vgDwjsJVp2bdRrs5x9AAYFc01GBzjflTeZzpo3XaRTrpEFWmjRKONebEjqX4Mf5BJnOuBKgmjfqDEYkeIVIR01mRd7Y9SYh32dku9Rc7mX6TZ2GNJhSXdDrmyXBz4auBxHPgquPL6vItDMKVzFD8tJnWGkBeZmaaE6M3SSIsXKBhV-FlumWSebPpv2OUsLFacLYPgjP4RTCc30Nw&smid=share-url

#WalterMosley #literature

"When the room was black he remembered who he was in a spiraling echo that played itself out."
last sentence of "RL's Dream" by #WalterMosley on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-85242-735-7-last-sentence.php

#FinishedReading #WhiteButterfly by #WalterMosley

Well written but nasty. This is the third Easy Rawlins book I’ve read and definitely the darkest

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2c1fb651-fdd0-408c-8c8d-13c462b4bc4b

Latest read, The Good News Is (2020) by Walter Mosley, from The Awkward Black Man. Samson Diehl discovers his weight loss isn't from skipping ice cream, it's from cancer. His already tenuous romances fail and in his loneliness he falls in love with his nurse.
Depicts a vulnerability in black men that media often doesn't show.

#Books #ShortStory #WalterMosley #BlackArt

@ChrisBauerWrites I've been through a hard boiled/noir phase recently. #johnDMacdonald #WalterMosley #LawrenceBlock #RaymondChandler. Always loved Chandler but was pleasantly surprised by Mosley too. #DevilInABlueDress was terrific