Walter Mosley’s This Year
<p> Walter Mosley’s THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL is out from Hachette. To boil down his thesis ninety days is all we need to start, finish, and revise a novel. This is no surprise to anyone who has been listening to Walter these past several years or watching his career trajectory. He is a prolific man and if he’d only written the Easy Rawlins novels his place in the firmament would be secure. DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, BROWN BETTY, LITTLE SCARLET are my favorites.
I wanted to mention Sarah Stewart Taylor’s STILL AS DEATH a mystery featuring Sweeney St. George her art historian who specializes in funery jewelry. This is Sarah’s latest title from SMP-Minotaur.
Next to the slim Mosley stands a mighty Ian Rankin THE NAMING OF THE DEAD. I approach Rankin with trepidation since I haven’t liked anything since FLESHMARKET CLOSE. His standalone thrillers have suffered from awkward prose, uneven pacing, abrupt endings and a general lack of confidence. He wrote THE FALLS one of the best crime fiction novels I’ve ever read. Hope springs eternal.
Podcast from the Java Sea? Urquhart Depew hopes to podcast his interview with the earl live from Jakarta later this week. The Wellington Leg Broadcasting Company will air the interview unless something better is on. No, we will not interrupt I DREAM OF JEANNIE like the last time. That’s a promise from CSI Caruso ( okay, we do close sometimes.)