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Easy Rawlins is a private citizen, not strictly speaking a private eye. He is also a black man. But these two significant--and dramatically potent--differences aside, novelist Walter Mosley's creation is the truest heir we have yet had to Raymond Chandler's immortal Philip Marlowe. And writer-director Carl Franklin's cool, expert adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley's first novel, evokes the spirit of '40s film noir more effectively than any movie since Chinatown...
...Mosley] chose not to be a candidate," Wilsonsaid. "We're very indebted to her for taking onthe role of acting director...
...absence of an immediate successor,Miller's position was temporarily filled by EvaSteiner Mosley '55, the curator of manuscripts forthe Schlesinger. Though considered a historian ofgreat prominence herself, Mosley declined to be acandidate for the position...
...Mosley really stepped up to the challengeand did a superb job," said Susan Ware, a memberof the Schlesinger Library Advisory Committee andAssociate Professor of History at New YorkUniversity. "But if you know Eva Mosley, she's anarchivist. She loves her sources and I think herheart and soul is with the manuscripts," Wareadded...
...gooder is Easy Rawlins, a savvy, down-to-earth African-American private eye based in Los Angeles. In WHITE BUTTERFLY (Norton; $19.95), the third book in the Rawlins series, good-time girls, corrupt politicians, trigger-happy psychopaths and other crime-novel fixtures are all in place. But Walter Mosley's writing hums with the particular rhythms and blues of the black American experience. What makes these books special is their vivid portrayal of life in the side streets where Philip Marlowe seldom ventured...