The interviews during this assortment disguise Walter Mosley's occupation and show an overarching subject: a trust within the transformative energy of studying and writing. because the 1990 e-book of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley (b. 1952) has released over thirty books in an incredible diversity of genres and modes: crime and detective fiction, technology fiction, literary novels of principles, personality stories, political and social nonfiction, erotica, and memoir. most sensible identified for his effortless Rawlins detective sequence and Socrates Fortlow sequence of crime novels, Mosley has created a physique of labor that as an entire chronicles and examines twentieth-century African American experience.

Conversations with Walter Mosley covers the breadth of Mosley's profession and divulges a craftsman and wryly witty conversationalist. aware of his forebears in addition to literary recommendations, he discusses favorites and impacts together with Camus, Shakespeare, and Dickens in addition to writers in well known genres, particularly speculative fiction and the hard-boiled noir detective culture. He additionally discusses how his paintings modifies the crime culture to have interaction it with black experience.