Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Walter Mosley Reads Known to Evil

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Think and when jockey says something it's something else. And you know and if I says that you just listen because you scared us you know. Yes. What do you do for a living. I. You know many years ago I was I did this movie Devil in a blue dress and one thank you an. And so they hired all the actors to hire Jennifer Beals and Jennifer Beals who you know is gorgeous. She's still gorgeous. She was gorgeous Nancy gorgeous today. We're still friends. She she. She called me and she said Walter I would like to take you out to dinner I'm like yeah how can I get something out of this you know this is before we're friends and. And so she takes me out to dinner and we're sitting there and she says now she's her
serious you know she went to Yale she's very smart. And she goes. Now Walter you know I'm about to embark on this role and I find it very interesting you know and I want you to tell me the research you did in order to create this character so that I can follow in your footsteps and do the same research in order to create her on the screen. And I did no research whatsoever. Not a lick. And I was just sitting there looking at her thinking should I lie. And you know I would lie if I could have figured a lie that you know she when the figured out you know because I could be with you I could think of a book or you know a person or anything you know we you know I just write I'm a fiction writer. What can I tell you. I mean I write things you know and and I don't do research. I'm sorry. I'm not so bad you know. It's like you know I feel bad about that you know that said they did the same thing is that question when they ask you you know who your fav writers are you know that you know you guys could go to like all these
things would writers write but please ask them what writers influence them and I promise you every single one of them will lie to you every.
Collection
Harvard Book Store
Series
WGBH Forum Network
Program
Walter Mosley Reads Known to Evil
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WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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Walter Mosley reads from his new installment about private investigator Leonid McGill, Known to Evil.Leonid McGill--the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall--is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife--but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-the -skyscraper office space. Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love--but the girl has a shady past that is all of a sudden threatening the whole McGill family--and his other son, the charming rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing but enabling the crisis.Most ominously of all, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind-the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control everything that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix--and he's come to Leonid for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down. But he won't tell McGill his motives, which doesn't quite square with the new company policy--but turning down Rinaldo is almost impossible to contemplate.
Date
2010-03-24
Topics
Literature
Subjects
Literature & Philosophy; People & Places
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:02:18
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Distributor: WGBH
Speaker2: Mosley, Walter
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WGBH
Identifier: 36e1f7b8b79ac34f56985ea797806131c12b87d9 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
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Duration: 00:01:38
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Chicago: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Walter Mosley Reads Known to Evil,” 2010-03-24, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 6, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-3f4kk94b8r.
MLA: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Walter Mosley Reads Known to Evil.” 2010-03-24. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 6, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-3f4kk94b8r>.
APA: Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Walter Mosley Reads Known to Evil. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-3f4kk94b8r