Talk:Walter Mosley

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Hard boiled?

Someone define "hard-boiled" for me? Easy Rawlins is just a man trying to come up from out under. He can't trade wisecracks with the police because they will beat the shit out of him or kill him. He can't seduce beautiful blondes because he'll get lynched - officially or unofficially. He doesn't have a detective's license and he doesn't dabble in crime for the fun of it.

He is however a worthy successor to Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe because of the beautiful and deeply felt emotional texture of his narration. But that doesn't make him "hard boiled", even if he kills more people. Mosley the writer is also like Chandler in that he make the city of Los Angeles a living breathing presence in his stories, in all it's imagined feel and texture.

But he is unlike Chandler in that while the Marlowe stories are just a peg to hang, in Chandler's words "certain experiments in dramatic dialogue", the Rawlins stories attempt to express the quality of what it is, or was, like to be a Black in the openly oppressive society of those times, or to be an underdog of any kind.

"For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day" not a book

I removed this from the list of non-fiction books because it's not a book; it's an article Mosley wrote for the New York Times. 68.173.255.96 (talk) 04:09, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

trivia

mentioned as a featured speaker in the movie "The English Teacher."76.126.195.34 (talk) 05:49, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added category

Added Category:Noir writers per Noir by Noirs: Toward a New Realism in Black Cinema by Manthia Diawara in Shades of Noir: A Reader (1993) ed. Joan Copjec, Verso, pp. 261-278. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pete Best Beatles (talk • contribs) 02:18, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section. Cite templates will be used for books and articles. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Links to potentially unreliable digitised copies may be removed. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 11:04, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]