{"id":176481712,"date":"2020-11-23T00:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T06:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176481712"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:08:07","slug":"essay-walter-mosely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2020\/11\/23\/essay-walter-mosely\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSAY: Walter Mosely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176481714\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walter_mosley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walter_mosley.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walter_mosley-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walter_mosley-768x411.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">My daughter Kiini Ibura Salaam, who is an award-winning writer of speculative fiction, literally introduced me to Walter Mosley. I can&#8217;t think of Mosley without recalling the scene from <strong><em>Devil In A Blue Dress<\/em><\/strong> with Mouse (Don Cheadle) informing Easy Rawlins (Denzel): if you didn&#8217;t want him dead, you shouldn&#8217;t have left him with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I have found Mosley to be both a genuine literary legend and at the same time a totally humble and accessible individual. So imagine my surprise and delight when I received a shout-out from Mosley in a speech at the National Book Award. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mosley has a history of helping writers&#8211;many times anonymously or without public fanfare. He is one of the most seriously generous writers whom I know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/read-walter-mosleys-incredible-speech-from-last-nights-national-book-awards\/\">Here are his brief remarks<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter Kiini Ibura Salaam, who is an award-winning writer of speculative fiction, literally introduced me to Walter Mosley. I can&#8217;t think of Mosley without recalling the scene from Devil In A Blue Dress with Mouse (Don Cheadle) informing Easy Rawlins (Denzel): if you didn&#8217;t want him dead, you shouldn&#8217;t have left him with me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176481712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176481712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176481712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176481785,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176481712\/revisions\/176481785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176481712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176481712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176481712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}