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With the original hardboiled detectives, there was an existentialism that entered the genre in the '30s and '40s. There was no connection to the world. No mother, no father, no sister, no brother, no friends, no dog, no regular apartment. If you get arrested, they throw you in jail and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

The thing about poor people in general, their lives are all within arms length, right? If you're rich, you can reach back into history, you can reach out into outer space, you can do all sort of stuff if you're rich. And if you're middle class, you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

People skip over names. But names have lots of meaning. I had troubles in the beginning. People were saying, "You're going to name a black character Leonid? How can you do that?" And I'd say, "Why not? Does it make any more sense to call him John? I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

I still don't know it. I just finished this morning the first chapter of the third Leonid McGill book. And I'm still learning about him. And I will be learning about him until I come to the last book, which I think will be number ten. And if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

No. The books still exist. They are still there. But they would have gotten boring. One thing i know is that if I kept writing about Easy, it would have been a big mistake. I was finished. The story was over. It was time to move on.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

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