The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
You’ll have to forgive us if we don’t reproduce the entire longlist for the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award , the commendation referred to as the “world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.” It’s a very long list , indeed. Nominations have come from 163 libraries in 123 cities and 43 countries worldwide....
Britney Spears Gossip (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Harvard graduate and entertainment lawyer with a strong opinion, Walter Mosley is tweeting on Twitter. Walter is very social and talks with friends and family. It seems he has a zest for life. He enjoys professional dancing and doesn’t mind making time to have a few drinks with a friend.
Prisonmovement's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Incarceration By Walter Mosley and Rae Gomes, The Nation Posted on November 3, 2009, Printed on November 4, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/143715/ This monthly feature was conceived by writer and Nation editorial board member Walter Mosley as a kind of do-it-yourself opinion and action device. Most often “Ten Things” will offer a [...]
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It's been some time since my last McConfidential, so I'm very pleased to be back with one of my favourite hardboiled detective story authors, Sean Chercover . The natural successor to Chandler, Parker, and Crais, in my humble opinion... Rafe: Tell me a bit about your latest novel or current series. Sean: Trigger City is the second book about Chicago investigative reporter-turned PI Ray Dudgeon, who...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like to have written? James Ellroy’s LA CONFIDENTIAL. What fictional character would you most like to have been? Boone Daniels in Don Winslow’s THE DAWN PATROL because he’s such a damn good surfer. Who do you read for guilty pleasures? George V...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
• PEN USA, a Los Angeles-based organization of professional writers, has announced that it will give Elmore Leonard (Road Dogs) its lifetime achievement award at a ceremony in December. Past recipients of that same commendation include Ray Bradbury, Woody Allen, Walter Mosley, Jane Smiley, Robert Towne, Gore Vidal.• ABCtales, in association with the e-zine Shots, is hosting a “brand-new...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
"Past recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include a mix of film and literary types: Ray Bradbury, Woody Allen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Betty Friedan, Larry Gelbart, Vaclav Havel, Walter Mosley, Christopher Isherwood, Neil Simon, Jane Smiley, Robert Towne, Billy Wilder and Gore Vidal."...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Following up on last night's post Jeff Pierce wrote: I guess I don't understand the difference between crime fiction and mysteries. Are mysteries defined by the fact that the reader doesn't know who did it, while readers of crime fiction do? Just wondering. Jeff P. Ed here: I guess my so-called friend had two parts to his agenda. One was to tell me without telling me that he thought that I wrote trash....
G D Townshende (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Following the advice of Ray Bradbury and Walter Mosley (although Bradbury's advice preceeded that of Mosley's), I am now reading some poetry, and intend to make it a regular habit. I'm starting with W. B. Yeats's The Tower.The copy I'm reading is a facsimile edition of the 1928 first edition collection of these poems. It is also one of the books I recently checked out from my local library.
teh Mexigogue (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Back in the ’90s, Bob at work was telling me how he had discovered the writing of Walter Mosley when then President Bill Clinton had answered a reporter’s question on what books he was currently reading. The President had responded with the name of one of Mosley’s books and after that incident, the sales [...]
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Walter Mosley's True Crime: the Roots of an American Obsession in Newsweek should be read by anyone interested in crime fiction, true crime or simply the state of America.
Musings of a Bookish Kitty (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
I was listening to National Public Radio (NPR) on my drive home from a workshop this past week and author Walter Mosley was on, along with someone whose name I cannot remember from Law & Order . They were talking about what draws people to crime fiction. My very first thought was, “Oh good! I have a long drive ahead of me!” One of those rare times in recent history anyone’s prayed...
Room Eight (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Theory heard while out and about: the Comptroller's race will be decided in a runoff. All contenders – Council members John Liu, David Yassky, Melinda Katz, and David Weprin – seem to poll about 25%. Yassky is seen to have Manhattan; Katz, the Bronx; Weprin, Staten Island; and Liu, of course, Queens. The wild card is Brooklyn. Liu is seen to have the edge in central Brooklyn due to the...
Ed Batista (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
I recently heard Walter Mosley interviewed on NPR, and one of his comments jumped out at me: People are very small in the modern world. We could get crushed, and no one would notice. Certain aspects of modern life--such as...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
It’s hardly uncommon for political leaders to influence what books the rest of us carry along on our summer vacations. The careers of Dennis Lehane, Walter Mosley, Harlan Coben, and Alex Kava were all boosted after the media pointed out that former U.S. President Bill Clinton enjoyed their novels. And we have mentioned before that the popularity of super-spy James Bond was fueled in part by
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