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...shed any more light on this riddle. He's not exactly a reliable witness. Last week his brother Jerry told the New York Times that a new trial is needed so that James Earl can "clear his name." That's not what Jerry told investigative reporter George McMillan, author of The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray, 21 years ago. According to McMillan, Jerry told him that on the morning of the murder, his brother telephoned him and said he was going to get "the big nigger" that very same day. Like his brother, Jerry later...
...review of Walter Mosley's Gone Fishin', the original in his series featuring black hero Easy Rawlins [BOOKS, Jan. 20], we said the publication of Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress had been aided by the commercial success of Terry McMillan's novel Waiting to Exhale. Waiting to Exhale was published in 1992, two years after Devil in a Blue Dress appeared...
Mystery writer Walter Mosley finished his first novel, Gone Fishin', in 1988, but he couldn't find an agent or a publisher who would touch it back then because they feared that a thriller about working-class African Americans would bomb at bookstores. Then along came 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...
...With and Without My Dad, just out in paperback, vividly remembers coming upon Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye (1969): "When I finished that book, I had all the permission I needed to become a writer. Someone who looked like me had written a masterpiece." The megasuccessful Terry McMillan, author of the current best seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back, remembers being inspired by Morrison's books in school and then sensing, once her own work began to be published, that the elder author was not offering her much encouragement. (They write, to put it mildly, dissimilar fiction...
...critics will ultimately judge McMillan is a good question. Will she turn out to be, like Danielle Steele and Judith Krantz, just one more queen of the steamy, scented stuff that the publishing industry calls "commercial"? It's possible. But so far McMillan has not written formula glop. And most of the time her chapters, though they can rank nearly as high as Steele's and Krantz's in breathy descriptions of dressing, undressing and furniture, have a brassy realism that saves them from the trash bin. And even though peace has broken out in the author's life, with...