"I let him go over and I was comfortable with that..."
—Walter Mosley
I didn't figure it out until I was editing the interview I did with Walter Mosley about his new novel 'Little Green,' but when you listen in retrospect it's clear. Mosley's conversational style is like jazz saxophone. He's loose, lyrical, fluid. He moves quickly and makes his point succinctly.
All this meant that I had to be on my rhetorical toes while speaking with him. Fortunately, 'Little Green' makes that Easy. I wanted to find out why Mosley would kill off a character who was clearly quite popular, and then decide to bring him back. There are both writing business and artistic reasons and ramifications in doing so.
Then there is the 1960's-era of 'Little Green,' in itself something of a potential pitfall. Mosley manages to pull this off with complete aplomb, avoiding the cloches and immersing his readers in a fresh and interesting vision. Mosley's approach to this difficulty highlights the reason he's able to write in so many genres and forms.
But Mosley is not a guy who drops one novel per year like clockwork. He writes a lot, and so I also wanted to take the opportunity to ask about his science fiction novels, and his upcoming work sounds like lots of fun. Mosley loves to use science fiction tackle big subjects and dissect them with clever abandon.
And finally, there are the plays and the movies. Mosey can rattle off the names of major stars and major works, so many that even in the miss-and-miss world of Hollowood it seems as if one must take. And given the quality of his first outing with Easy Rawlins, that's something to look forward to. Mosley's stories have the ability to retain the pleasures of the novels when translated into movie.
08-21-15: Agony Column Podcast News Report : Senator Claire McCaskill is 'Plenty Ladylike' : Internalizing Determination to Overcome Sexism [Incudes Time to Read EP 211: Claire McCaskill, Plenty Ladylike, plus A 2015 Interview with Senator Claire McCaskill]
Agony Column Podcast News Report : Emily Schultz Unleashes 'The Blondes' : A Cure by Color [Incudes Time to Read EP 210: Emily Schultz, The Blondes, plus A 2015 Interview with Emily Schultz]
07-05-15: Commentary : Dr. Michael Gazzaniga Tells Tales from Both Sides of the Brain : A Life in Neuroscience Reveals the Life of Science
Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2015 Interview with Michael Gazzaniga : "We made the first observation and BAM there was the disconnection effect..."
04-21-15: Commentary : Kazuo Ishiguro Unearths 'The Buried Giant' : The Mist of Myth and Memory
Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2015 Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro : ".... by the time I was writing this novel, the lines between what was fantasy and what was real had blurred for me..."
Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2015 Interview with Marc Goodman : "...every physical object around us is being transformed, one way or another, into an information technology..."
Agony Column Podcast News Report UPDATE: Time to Read Episode 199: Marc Goodman : Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
