Blood Grove: Walter Mosley with Joe Ide

Walter Mosley and Joe Ide

Blood Grove: Walter Mosley with Joe Ide

Walter Mosley and Joe Ide

3:00pm

Friday, June 3, 2022

In Blood Grove, legendary author Walter Mosley presents a new mystery for Easy Rawlins fans. In the heat of 1969, the Black private detective finds himself dealing with trouble at work and at home. The iconic investigator must lean on his friends for help as he navigates Californian hippies, tycoons, sociopaths and grifters in pursuit of solving a confusing case for a white Vietnam veteran, while also trying to come to terms with a surprising family reunion. This enlightening virtual conversation on writing mysteries and creating iconic characters will be led by fellow American crime writer Joe Ide (IQ).

Interviewer: Joe Ide

This digital event is free with registration. Please return to this page on June 3 at 11:30pm ET to watch the event. The video will be available to view until June 8 at 11:59pm ET.

Conversation

In Blood Grove, legendary author Walter Mosley presents a new mystery for Easy Rawlins fans. In the heat of 1969, the Black private detective finds himself dealing with trouble at work and at home. The iconic investigator must lean on his friends for help as he navigates Californian hippies, tycoons, sociopaths and grifters in pursuit of solving a confusing case for a white Vietnam veteran, while also trying to come to terms with a surprising family reunion. This enlightening virtual conversation on writing mysteries and creating iconic characters will be led by fellow American crime writer Joe Ide (IQ).

Interviewer: Joe Ide

This digital event is free with registration. Please return to this page on June 3 at 11:30pm ET to watch the event. The video will be available to view until June 8 at 11:59pm ET.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated writers. He was given the 2020 National Book Award’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, the Robert Kirsch Award, numerous Edgars and several NAACP Image Awards. His work is translated into 25 languages. He has published fiction and non-fiction in The New Yorker, Playboy and The Nation. As an executive producer, he adapted his novel, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, for AppleTV+ and serves as a writer and executive producer for FX’s Snowfall.

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Joe Ide
Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. His IQ series has won the Anthony, Shamus and Macavity Awards, and been nominated for the Edgar, Barry, CWA New Blood Dagger and Strand Book Critics Awards. The IQ books are currently in development as an original TV series.

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Friday, June 3

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