Walter Mosley on ‘MasterClass,’ Becoming a Writer, and the Importance of Language

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Larry opens with a weigh in on the importance of language as it pertains to the idea ‘defend the police.’ Later, Larry is joined by Walter Mosley, author of ‘Devil in a Blue Dress,’ to discuss his career as a writer (14:00), teaching with ‘MasterClass’ (34:00), and more. Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Walter Mosley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back everybody. This is Larry. One more you're listening to Black On The
0:10.0	Air. Thank you so much for tuning in. Really fun show today. A little bit of a departure.
0:16.8	I am talking to celebrated author Walter Mosley, you know, the author of Devil on a Blue
0:22.1	Dress. And man, he's written so many novels though. It's crazy. And he's the 2020 National Book
0:28.5	Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Also, he is starting in masterclass
0:36.0	that is available now. You guys can download his masterclass on writing and fiction. And it's
0:40.2	really good guys. I have listened to it and there are some really, really good stuff in there.
0:46.3	I mean, he's a master teaching you a masterclass. What more do you want?
0:50.1	Walter Mosley. So we have a good conversation about writing and process and all that kind of
0:55.4	stuff. And he's just a great guy. And this is the time to do some reading too, you know.
1:00.2	You got some time right now with the whole pandemic still hanging around and the holiday season
1:06.0	and all that stuff. I hope you guys are staying safe out there doing the right thing. This is,
1:11.4	we got a tough, what like six or eight months coming up where they're going to be rolling out
1:16.5	the vaccine to certain groups, but a lot of people are not going to have it yet. There's going to
1:22.1	be some of these shutdowns. They're still happening. Un-enough. Let me just say again, if any way you
1:28.8	can support your favorite small local business, whether it's a restaurant or a bookstore or whatever
1:35.4	it is, really try to support it. I feel so bad for some of these restaurants that have, you know,
1:41.1	invested money in doing their outdoor dining and are told they can't do outdoor dining, especially
1:45.9	here in California, Southern California. I do not see, and this may be controversial, I don't see
1:50.9	how short dining has a big threat to COVID, and they've been really, really good and careful about
1:57.6	doing their outdoor dining. That has been unfortunate. It would be great if they could keep that open
2:02.2	because a lot of these businesses, if they go away, they're not going to be able to come back, you know.
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