The Dybbuk in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley, the Los Angeles born writer, is best known for creating Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator who, from his imaginative beat in Watts, propelled Mosley’s volumes into the hands of Bill Clinton, and into a movie starring Denzel Washington.
He sat down with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg of the Wall Street Journal to speak about his newest protagonist, Ben Dibbuk. A little quote from the interview for flavor: “I’m Jewish. My mother is Jewish.”
His thoughts on book publishing, mysteries and Yiddish abound.
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I love Walter Mosley – have known he was Jewish for years but it seems a lot of people still aren’t aware. I’ll admit, I have read almost every single one of his books including the entire Easy Rawlins series
No way! My friend told me last week but he didn’t tell me that Jewschool had the article. Sweet!