<div>A new collection of short fiction from the Edgar Award-winning author of Devil in a Blue Dress and Trouble is What I Do.With his extraordinary fiction and gripping television writing, Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley&rsquo;s most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent. Touching, contemplative, and always surprising, these stories introduce an array of imperfect characters&mdash;awkward, self-defeating, elf-involved, or just plain odd. In The Awkward Black Man, Mosley overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints subtle, powerful portraits of unique individuals. In &quot;The Good News Is,&quot; a man&rsquo;s insecurity about his weight gives way to illness and a loneliness so intense that he&rsquo;d do anything for a little human comfort. &quot;Pet Fly,&quot; previously published in the New Yorker, follows a man working as a mailroom clerk&mdash;a solitary job for which he is overqualified&mdash;and the unforeseen repercussions he endures when he attempts to forge a new connection. And &quot;Almost Alyce&quot; chronicles failed loves, family loss, alcoholism, and a Zen approach to the art of begging that proves surprisingly effective.</div>

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<div>The New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels delivers &ldquo;a taut, riveting, and artfully edgy saga&rdquo; of one man&rsquo;s self-transformation (Kirkus). At twelve years old, Cornelius Jones, the son of an Italian-American woman and a black man from Mississippi, secretly takes over his father&rsquo;s job at a silent film theater in New York&rsquo;s East Village&mdash;until the innocent scheme goes tragically wrong. Years later, his dying father imparts this piece of wisdom to Cornelius: The person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself&mdash;becoming Professor John Woman, a man who will spread his father&rsquo;s teachings through the classrooms of an unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. Engaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history, John Woman is a compulsively readable, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world</div>

John Woman

<div>The renowned novelist and author of This Year You Write a Novel shares a “compact but insight-rich” guide to fiction writing (Publishers Weekly). In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. For writers who want to approach the genius of Melville, Dickens, or Twain, The Elements of Fiction is a must-read. Mosley demonstrates how to master fiction’s most essential elements: character and char-acter development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description, and more. The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again. Throughout, The Elements of Fiction is enriched by brilliant demonstrative examples that Mosley himself has written here for the first time.</div>

Elements of Fiction

<div>Dave Eggers and his students at the 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs compile fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, as well as category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.</div>

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013

<div>Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery. In &ldquo;One Dollar Jackpot,&rdquo; Michael Connelly&rsquo;s curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up &ldquo;Bump,&rdquo; a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. &ldquo;Hardly Knew Her&rdquo; by Laura Lippmann showcases a young woman learning about bluffing the hard way, while &ldquo;In the Eyes of Children&rdquo; by Alexander McCall Smith features a scam at a poker table on the high seas. With these, and more offerings from mystery greats such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Lescroart, Walter Mosley, Peter Robinson, and Eric Van Lustbader, Dead Man&rsquo;s Hand is a suspenseful anthology that&rsquo;s a big winner for any fan of crime fiction.</div>

Dead Man's Hand

<div>In a Las Vegas hotel room, a man awakes to confront his destiny Dreaming, Jack hears voices: a frightened child in a hospital, a woman cheating on her husband, a death-row inmate. When he wakes, the voices recede, but they do not vanish. He is in a luxurious hotel room on the Vegas strip, and his body is covered in scars. Jack Strong is a patchwork man, his flesh melded together from dozens of men and women, and his mind is the same way. Countless lifetimes are contained within him: people whose time was cut short, and who see their place in Jack as a chance to make things right. On behalf of one of them, Jack reignites a feud with corrupt casino bosses. Drawing on the skills of another, he beats the life out of two bodyguards. Jack fights for control as he lurches from impulse to impulse, certain that somewhere within him exists a soul. The answers may lie with whomever is tailing him in a sleek black car&mdash;if Jack can somehow confront him. </div>

Jack Strong

<div>It&rsquo;s 1939 and Easy and Mouse are young men just setting out in life&#8212;Easy has yet to develop his skill for unraveling the secrets of others, and Mouse has yet to kill his first man. But all that will soon change. Soupspoon Wise is dying on the unforgiving streets of New York City, years and worlds away from the Mississippi delta, where he once jammed with blues legend Robert "RL" Johnson. It was an experience that burned indelibly into Soupspoon's soul&#8212;never mind that they said RL's gift came from the Devil himself. Now it's Soupspoon's turn to strike a deal with a stranger. An alcoholic angel of mercy, Kiki Waters isn't much better off than Soupspoon, but she too is a child of the South, and knows its pull. And she is determined to let Soupspoon ride out the final notes of his haunting blues dream, to pour out the remarkable tale of what he's seen, where he's been&#8212;and where he's going. Mosley creates a &ldquo;a meditation on the history and meaning of the blues&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly) in R L&rsquo;s Dream, which practically sings a soulful blues song itself.</div>

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