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This article relates to Blonde Faith
Walter Mosley is a
thoughtful and prolific author
whose books have been translated
into at least twenty-one
languages. His popular mysteries
featuring Easy Rawlins and his
friend Raymond "Mouse" Alexander
began with Devil in a Blue
Dress in 1990, which was
nominated for an Edgar. The
TriStar film, "Devil in a Blue
Dress," produced by Jonathan
Demme, directed by Carl
Franklin, and starring Denzel
Washington and Jennifer Beals,
was released in 1995 and
garnered critical acclaim and
many awards. Others novels in
this detective series, A Red
Death and White Butterfly
were also nominated for several
awards. Black Betty, A
Little Yellow Dog, and Cinnamon
Kiss were New York Times
bestsellers. By the date of this
newsletter, Blonde Faith
had already risen to #6 on the
LA Times Fiction Bestseller
List.
Is this the End of Easy?
During Mosley's book tour
for Blonde Faith,
National Public Radio
interviewed him for its
All Things Considered
broadcast on October 10,
2007. In this discussion, the
interviewer, Robert Siegel,
recalls that Devil in a Blue
Dress (1990) introduced
readers to Ezekiel "Easy"
Rawlins in 1948, when he was a
black World War II veteran and
fledgling detective in Los
Angeles, and he asks Mosley if
Blonde Faith, the 10th
Easy Rawlins novel, might be the
final chapter in this popular
series. In answer, Mosley tells
him, "There [are] no more Easy
Rawlins books in my head
I
guess it's always possible that
I could write another one, but
I'm not thinking about writing
another one, and this feels like
a nice ending to me." In a
separate discussion with
Publishers Weekly, Mosley
confirms, "I really feel that
this is the best Easy Rawlins
novel, which makes me happy to
kind of go out on it. It's not
that it's my favorite book, I
think it's my best novel. And
I've never said that before."
Coming Soon from Walter Mosley:
This "beyond the book article" relates to Blonde Faith. It originally ran in November 2007 and has been updated for the August 2008 paperback edition. Go to magazine.
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