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Amerikalı usta yazar Walter Mosley’nin Bu Yıl Romanını Yazıyorsun’u tamamlayıcı bir deneme olarak tasarladığı Kurmacanın Unsurları yaratıcı yazının zihinsel ve maddi yapıtaşlarına dair bir dizi derin düşünceden oluşuyor. Roman yazma sürecindeki deneme yanılmaları, ani savrulmaları ve büyülü keşifleri yansıtan doğaçlama bir caz üslubuyla kurmacayı kurmaca yapan en temel unsurları ele alıyor. Mosley’ye göre, roman yazmanın formülleri ve reçeteleri yok; iyi bir üniversite eğitimi, yazarlık kursları ve kitapları da yazar olmanın şartları değil. Roman yazmak kendi deneyiminize kulak verip hayatı gözlemleyebilmekten, yazdıklarınıza kafa yormaktan, yazarken girdiğiniz dünyaya kendinizi verebilmekten geçiyor. Kurmacanın Unsurları yaratıcı yazının simyasına, hikâyelerin doğasına ve hayatı yorumlamanın inceliklerine dair bir meditasyon.
“Bu incelemenin konusu hikâyeyi aşan bir roman yazma umudu. Yazarın hem anlamın derinlerine daldığı hem de iyi bir olay örgüsü kurguladığı bir roman.
Romana yaklaşımım nasılsa bu denemeye de öyle yaklaştım. Bu metnin biçiminin roman yazma sürecini yansıtmasını istedim. Buradaki gibi, tökezleyerek, çırpınarak, hüsrana uğrayarak verdiğin üründe akıl ile kalp bir araya gelir – ruhu, hatta belki de romanı tanımlayan kesişim budur.”

Romanını yazmaya karar verdin mi? Öyleyse daha fazla erteleme. Mesleğin ya da kişisel sorumlulukların ne olursa olsun romanını yazabilir, hatta bunu bir yılda başarabilirsin.
Bu Yıl Romanını Yazıyorsun’da ayrıntılarda kaybolmadan bilmen gereken temel sorunların çözümünü öğrenecek ve romanını nasıl yazacağına dair bir program oluşturacaksın.
Tanınmış Amerikalı yazar Walter Mosley bugüne dek elliye yakın kitaba imza attı, pek çok ödüle değer görüldü ve edebiyat jürilerinde yer aldı. Otuz yılı aşkın deneyim ve gözlemlerinin ürünü olan Bu Yıl Romanını Yazıyorsun’da anlatıcı sesi, olay örgüsü, karakter gelişimi ve kurmacanın öteki unsurlarının yanı sıra, yazma alışkanlığını sağlamlaştırmaya ve bir romanın yaratılış sürecine dair pek çok yanıt bulacaksın.
“Roman yazmak kimilerinin büyüttüğü kadar zor değil. Sözle ya da işaretle iletişim kuran herkes bir anlamda yazardır. Her yönetici, anne, danışman, öğretmen ya da sokağın köşesinde şişirme hikâyeler anlatan adam olası bir yazardır. Bu kısa kitabı okuyunca inanıyorum ki kendi kitabını yazmaya hazır olacaksın. Sonra tek ihtiyacın, romanını yazma arzusu ve iradesi.”

Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feelslike, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure.

Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family—the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles— against pure evil. Think Octavia Butler meets Jeff VanderMeer meets Jordan Peele.

Expansive and innovative, sexy and satirical, Touchedbrilliantly imagines the ways in which human life and technological innovation threaten existence itself.

Следователь Джо Кинг Оливер был обвинен в сексуальном насилии, которого не совершал. Увольнение, тюрьма, поломанная жизнь, которая никогда не будет прежней...

Годы спустя Джо получает письмо от женщины, которая признается, что ей заплатили за подставу детектива много лет назад.

Даже если ты всю жизнь стремишься на самый верх, стоит оступиться... и ты упадешь за одно мгновение.

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles.
But when Easy is approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran- a young white man who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man- he knows he shouldn't take the case.
Though he sees nothing but trouble in the brooding ex-soldier's eyes, Easy, a vet himself, feels a kinship form between them. Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
Set against the social and political upheaval of the late 1960s, Blood Grove is ultimately a story about survival, not only of the body but also the soul.
Widely hailed as "incomparable" (Chicago Tribune) and "dazzling" (Tampa Bay Times), Walter Mosley proves that he's at the top of his game in this bold return to the endlessly entertaining series that has kept fans on their toes for years.

Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent.
Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stori

Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent.
Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stori

It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense. He and his lover, a beautiful young woman, were attacked in a citrus grove at the city’s outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences—the bond between veterans superseding all other considerations.

The veteran is not Easy’s only unlooked-for trouble. Easy’s adopted daughter Feather’s white uncle shows up uninvited, raising questions and unsettling the life Easy has long forged for the now young woman. Where Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something that will break his heart.

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles.
But when Easy is approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran- a young white man who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man- he knows he shouldn't take the case.

'I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking...' It's the summer of '48 in the city of Angels and there's heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with a trunkload of somebody else's cash. Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friend's bar, he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Monet, a blonde with a reputation. It's a simple decision, but for one thing. Nobody warned him - better the devil you know... In the sleazy, fearful city, Easy must rely on his instincts, not just to solve the case, but to save his own life.

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most downtrodden -- in this installment of the beloved detective series from an Edgar Award-winning and bestselling crime novelist.

Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip Worry comes knocking.

Phillip "Catfish" Worry is a 92-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. Unsurprisingly, the opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is too much for Leonid to resist.

But when a famed and feared assassin puts a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past. Working to protect his client and his own family, Leonid must reach the heiress on the eve of her wedding before her powerful father kills those who hold their family's secret.

Joined by a team of young and tough aspiring investigators, Leonid must gain the trust of wary socialites, outsmart vengeful thugs, and, above all, serve the truth -- no matter the cost.

California Schemin’ is a new anthology of thrilling tales by nineteen of the world's best mystery authors. The official anthology of Bouchercon 2020, it is edited by the award-winning Art Taylor and features brand new works by acclaimed and award-winning writers like Scott Turow, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Anthony Horowitz, Cara Black, Janet A. Rudolph, and Catriona McPherson. As the name implies, each tale in California Schemin’ features a Californian theme, exploring both the heights of ambition and the depths of depravity in the Golden State's shadowy streets. Filled with twists and turns, intrigue, betrayals, wit, and whimsy, California Schemin’ is the perfect book for any mystery lover.

From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved «Leonid McGill» detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P. I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society's most downtrodden.
Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when

Нил Гейман и Эл Саррантонио — не только блестящие литераторы и строгие критики, но и искушенные читатели, для которых сказка — это, в первую очередь, история. История с большой буквы. Она одинаково увлекательна для людей разного пола, возраста и национальности. Она балансирует на тонкой грани смешного и страшного, причудливого и обыденного, и для нее нет иных границ, кроме таланта и фантазии автора. А какой еще жанр отвечает этой задаче лучше, чем фантастика? Итогом трудов составителей и стала книга, которую вы держите в руках — коллекция лучших рассказов в жанрах мифологического и городского фэнтези, хоррора, саспенса и даже реализма,…

Следователь Джо Кинг Оливер был обвинен в сексуальном насилии, которого не совершал. Увольнение, тюрьма, поломанная жизнь, которая никогда не будет прежней…
Годы спустя Джо получает письмо от женщины, которая признается, что ей заплатили за подставу детектива много лет назад.
Даже если ты всю жизнь стремишься на самый верх, стоит оступиться… и ты упадешь за одно мгновение.
Книга доступна только в формате FB2.

Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island.

A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter are the only light in his solitary life. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid to frame him those years ago, King realizes that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of--and why.

Running in parallel with King's own quest for justice is the case of a Black radical journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and women within the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Это не добрые рождественские сказки, которые так хорошо читать детям на ночь. Это страшные истории о тьме, которая стоит за порогом и ждет, когда ты сделаешь один неверный шаг, о странных и жутких существах, которые бродят за окном и иногда заглядывают по твою душу. Нил Гейман и Эл Саррантонио собрали лучшие рассказы в жанре хоррор и саспенс, написанные признанными мастерами американской прозы (Чак Паланик, Майкл Муркок, Уолтер Мосли, Майкл Суэнвик). Перед вами коллекция умных, тонких, изысканно интеллектуальных, захватывающих и по-настоящему страшных историй: дверь, через которую Бездна всматривается в человека.

Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.

Picking up where his last adventures in "Rose Gold" left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he’s taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford “Whisper” Natly, has started a new detective agency. But, inevitably, a case gets in the way: Easy’s friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a very old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Joe’s friend’s son, Seymour (young, bright, top of his class in physics at Stanford), has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach. Joe tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how Seymour literally was found standing over the man’s dead body at his cabin home, and considering the racially charged motives seemingly behind the murder, that might prove to be a tall order.

Between his new company, a heart that should be broken but is not, a whole raft of new bad guys on his tail, and a bad odor that surrounds Charcoal Joe, Easy has his hands full, his horizons askew, and his life in shambles around his feet.

Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, has been kidnapped by a black revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth. Their leader, Uhuru Nolicé, is holding her for ransom and if he doesn’t receive the money, weapons, and apology he demands, “Rose Gold” will die—horribly and publicly. So the authorities turn to Easy Rawlins, the one man who can cross the necessary lines to resolve this dangerous standoff and find Rose Gold before it’s too late.

In the sixties era of black nationalism, political abductions, and epidemic police corruption, Easy’s investigation will pull him—unremittingly and inevitably—into the darkest underbelly of Los Angeles.

When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress—a combustible mixture of Raymond Chandler and Richard Wright—he captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of readers (including future president Bill Clinton). Eleven books later, Easy Rawlins is one of the few private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called iconic and immortal. In the incendiary and fast-paced Little Green, he returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of L.A.’s 1960s hippie haven, the Sunset Strip.

We last saw Easy in 2007’s Blonde Faith, fighting for his life after his car plunges over a cliff. True to form, the tough WWII veteran survives, and soon his murderous sidekick Mouse has him back cruising the mean streets of L.A., in all their psychedelic 1967 glory, to look for a young black man, Evander “Little Green” Noon, who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir called Gator’s Blood, brewed by the conjure woman Mama Jo, Easy experiences a physical, spiritual, and emotional resurrection, but peace and love soon give way to murder and mayhem. Written with Mosley’s signature grit and panache, this engrossing and atmospheric mystery is not only a trip back in time, it is also a tough-minded exploration of good and evil, and of the power of guilt and redemption. Once again, Easy asserts his reign over the City of (Fallen) Angels.