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Saturday, November 12, 2005

Damn he's prolific

Walter Mosley just keeps coming with the books. It's hard to keep up. He is our modern day Langston, dipping into various genres and doing well in them.

His upcoming book is nonfiction and published by Nation Books, entitled: Life out of Context. According to PW, it's about the erosion of the political left. The first couple of sentences from the PW review read:

The isolation and ineffectuality of the American left is lamented in this
brooding, somewhat unfocused cri de coeur. Writing primarily for an
African-American audience, novelist Mosley (the Easy Rawlins mystery series)
argues that today’s political myopia and paralysis are caused by a lack of
"context." Americans, he contends, dwell on their own problems while
ignoring the global context of oppression and exploitation—in Iraq, Africa
and elsewhere—in which they are complicit. They are in turn shut out of
decision-making forums, whose agenda is set mainly by the narrow interests
of the wealthy and privileged.

Hmm, I'm intriguied.

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