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Title	Walter Mosley interview, 2008
Interviewee	Mosley, Walter
Interviewer	Martinson, Connie
Book Title	The tempest tales
Subject	African American men - Fiction Wrongful death - Fiction Future life - Fiction Paranormal fiction Good and evil - Fiction Angels - Fiction Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction
Description	Walter and Connie begin the interview discussing the nature of sin and his desire to write about how sin differs from place to place as means of understanding the moral decisions the “everyman” makes everyday. Walter also highlights the influence of Langston Hughes on his writing and Hughes’ use of an interlocutor to tell stories. Specifically, Walter describes his use of an interlocutor in the dialogue between the main characters, one a sinner and one a saint, to reveal the everyday complexity of morality. Among the other topics of discussion, Walter talks about time and how it so often works against humans, he also discusses the nature of making moral decisions in a large and indifferent system, and he talks about how and why his main characters seem to resonate with readers. Walter and Connie end the interview talking about Walter’s views on being a writer and the importance of writing everyday to fully embrace and describe the topic.
Publisher	The Drucker Institute
Date	2008
Language	eng
Source	U-matic tape
Collection	Connie Martinson Talks Books - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cmt
Rights	All rights are retained by The Drucker Institute. For permission to use this item, contact The Drucker Institute, http://www.thedruckerinstitute.com
Type	Moving Image
Format	video/f4v
Duration	00:26:53
Object File Name	cmt01210.f4v

Walter Mosley interview, 2008

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