WASHINGTON: (As Ezekiel Easy Rawlins) My name's not fella. STEVE RANDAZZO: (As Benny Giacomo) I'm sorry, fella. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS")ĭENZEL WASHINGTON: (As Ezekiel Easy Rawlins) I need a house to live. He's not happy about it, and he tries to get his boss to reconsider. In this scene, Easy, played by Denzel Washington, has just been let go from his job at one of the city's many airline factories. Those experiences are vividly portrayed in the novel "Devil In A Blue Dress" in 1990 and later in the 1995 movie version.
She lives way.īATES: The Rawlins series begins in 1948 when Los Angeles is adjusting to its new population of black migrants from the South who came to work in war-related industries. T-BONE WALKER: (Singing) I've got a west side baby. Don't give me any advance and we'll see where it goes, you know, because the idea of writing - if you want to get rich, you go into real estate.īATES: But it's his Easy Rawlins series that made Walter Mosley famous. I'm continually writing them and, you know, people say, well, I can't sell that stuff. He's even penned a slim book that instructs would-be fiction writers on how to get started. He's written mysteries, science fiction, erotica and young adult fiction, plays and opinion pieces and essays. WALTER MOSLEY: I've published 52 books and maybe 30 short stories and another 30 or 40 articles.īATES: Most writers specialize in one or two types of books, but Mosley refuses to be constrained. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Ask Walter Mosley what he does, and he'll say simply, I'm a writer, and he's written a lot. His newest book in the series is called "Charcoal Joe." Karen Grigsby Bates from our Code Switch team talked with Mosley about Easy's creation and journey. Mosley is one of America's best-known writers. A quarter of a century ago, Walter Mosley introduced the character Easy Rawlins, an Army vet turned private eye, to tell the story of black postwar Los Angeles.
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