Word: devils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale. Settling in on the best-seller list for 43 weeks, her tale about four middle-class black women proved there was an audience for commercial fiction by black authors and sent publishers scrambling to find the next black blockbuster. Mosley's second manuscript, Devil in a Blue Dress, a continuation of the story he'd begun in Gone Fishin' and featuring the same hero, Easy Rawlins, was scooped up in the rush. The book received rave reviews when it appeared in 1990 and sold so well that Mosley never had to return...
...four more hot-selling Easy Rawlins mysteries, a Denzel Washington movie based on Devil, and two visits to the White House later, Mosley, 45, finds himself in the enviable position of being able to bestow his work on whichever publisher he chooses. And when he decided to publish the once neglected Gone Fishin', he selected Black Classic Press, a small house in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in reprinting historical works by black authors. This is a significant move for two reasons. For starters it may show, as Mosley says, that "a black writer can bring his or her work...
...BOOKS . . . GONE FISHIN: The previously unpublished first novel from President Clinton's favorite mystery writer, Walter Mosley, is a first rate thriller. Mosley rocketed to fame after the 1990 success of his second novel, 'Devil in a Blue Dress.' "The publication of 'Fishin'' is noteworthy because it is, in some respects, the best of Mosley's novels," notes White. "Set in East Texas in 1939, it is a morally murky coming-of-age story that explains why it ain?t easy being hero Easy Rawlins. The tale concerns a pivotal episode that Mosley has alluded to in the previously published...
Michael Jordan stood in front of a dozen animated characters, pumping confidence into his team. And low and behold, by the end of "Space Jam," Porky, Bugs and the Tazmanian Devil had adopted the new attitude and were celebrating when the credits rolled...
College football's annual bunch of bowls saw a thriller in Pasadena, a retirement party in Tampa, and the controversy neatly removed from the running for the national championship. The Arizona State Sun Devils (11-1) lost a shot at a perfect season and their first national title when Ohio State played spoiler with their Rose Bowl win. The Buckeyes' Joe Germaine threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide-open David Boston with 19 seconds left. Just 1:21 earlier, Jake Plummer had appeared to stage another heroic rally to victory. His 11-yard run capped a 58-yard...