WEEK 9

For Tuesday

Devil in a Blue Dress, a novel by Walter Mosley

Here is an epub version:

Devil in a Blue Dress ( PDFDrive ).epub

Here is a PDF I found on line, which seems clean although I haven't screened it:

Mosley-Devil in a Blue Dress.pdf

Think about the book in light of this quote from the author:

"One of the things that I understood was that you don't exist unless you're in the literature. And that doesn't include the history books. And the black people in California, they just weren't remembered. Nobody was telling their stories."

For Thursday

Devil in a Blue Dress, a novel by Walter Mosley

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OPTIONAL MATERIAL TO EXPORE THIS WEEK

NYT Why I Quit the Writer's Room

NYT Interview with Mosley:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/06/magazine/walter-mosley-interview.html

NPR Interview with Mosley:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/07/29/487601378/easy-writer-walter-mosleys-passion-for-bringing-black-l-a-stories-to-life

An Image of Walter Mosley and his father, in Watts: