Further Reading
- Curwen, Thomas, "Red Sunlight through Ragged Palms," Los Angeles Times (7 July 2002): E1. (Curwen praises Mosley for his imaginative vigor and unflinching honesty in Bad Boy Brawly Brown.)
- Dillon, Nikki, "Live from Dystopia," New York Times Book Review (25 November 2001): section 7, p. 18. (Dillon lauds Mosley's inventive short stories in Futureland, commenting that the collection effectively taps into “post-September 11” fears to create a “startlingly inventive dystopia.”)
- Lindsay, Tony, Review of Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent Future, by Walter Mosley, Black Issues Book Review 3, no. 6 (November-December 2001): 57. (Lindsay applauds Mosley's portrait of a bleak future in Futureland, noting that the stories will fill readers with “wonder and provoking thought.”)
- Mosley, Walter, and Lynell George, "Transcending the Genre," Los Angeles Times (24 November 1999): E1. (Mosley discusses the African American male protagonists in his short stories and novels.)
- Reid, Calvin, "PGW to Distribute Mosley Novel from Black Classic," Publishers Weekly (5 August 1996): 276. (Article explaining Mosley's decision to use a small independent African-American publishing company to distribute Gone Fishin'.)
- Review of Gone Fishin', by Walter Mosley, Publishers Weekly (18 November 1996): 65. (Positive review of the sixth, but chronologically first, Easy Rawlins novel.)
- Salij, Marta, "Everyday Evil: Walter Mosley's Young Hero Fights His Demons," Detroit Free Press (25 January 2004): 4E. (Salij praises The Man in My Basement for its insightful examination of “the banality of evil.”)
- Villinger, Binti L., Review of Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories, by Walter Mosley, Black Issues Book Review 5, no. 1 (January-February 2003): 31. (Villinger examines how the stories in Six Easy Pieces enrich the recurring subplot of Mouse's disappearance in the Easy Rawlins series.)
- Young, Mary, "Walter Mosley, Detective Fiction and Black Culture," Journal of Popular Culture 32, no. 1 (summer 1998): 141-50. (Young observes that Mosley's fiction, while following the traditions of the hard-boiled detective genre, includes narrative elements drawn from African American folklore, the oral tradition, and the slave narrative.)
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