One Night Only: Walter Mosley Live — In Conversation with Eriq La Salle

Walter Mosley joins Eriq La Salle for a powerful talk on Black love, storytelling, and culture, followed by a live booksigning @ Malik Books

Join Malik Books and PAFF for a powerful evening of conversation, culture, and community as legendary, award-winning New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley takes the stage for an unforgettable book talk and signing celebrating his new novel, Ghalen: A Romance in Black.

Moderated by acclaimed actor and director Eriq La Salle, this special event will explore themes of Black love, storytelling, and the enduring impact of Mosley’s work on literature and society.

As part of Walter Mosley’s national book tour, this intimate discussion offers guests a unique opportunity to hear directly from one of the most influential voices of our time.

📍 Location: Malik Books – Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall
📅 Date: May 26
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM

Don’t miss this inspiring community event celebrating Black literature, love, and legacy.

🎟 RSVP: MalikBooks.com

All tickets include a signed copy of Ghalen: A Romance in Black by 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. He is the author of more than sixty critically acclaimed books that cover a wide range of ideas, genres, and forms including fiction (literary, mystery, and science fiction), political monographs, writing guides including Elements of Fiction, a memoir in paintings, and the young adult novel 47. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. He has published fiction and nonfiction 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.

In 2020 he was a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and from the National Book Foundation. In 2013, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an Edgar Award, an O. Henry Award, the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, a Grammy Award, and several NAACP Image Awards. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages.

Ghalen: A Romance in Black by Walter Mosley

One of the most acclaimed writers working today, Walter Mosley spins magic once again in this beautiful novel that explores the lives of Black characters and one remarkable family through a lens both universal and unique. It touches on the lives of those whose deepest thoughts and motivations are seldom explored--including the neurodivergent, the incarcerated, and the immigrant tortured by their past--characters who will stay with you and change how you see the world.

Ghalen, a brilliant young Black man, is the son of two seemingly mismatched parents. His mother, a gifted scientist, whose own mother expected her to exceed all the achievements in her family, and his father, a gentle cook at a small vegetarian restaurant, whose idiosyncratic nature shows the young woman a radically different love and understanding of life, despite his inexperience and lack of education.

His parents' grand love story starts it all off, setting us up to follow Ghalen and his family so deeply, that each new twist and turn feels personal.

The journey through Ghalen's coming-of-age tale, as he ventures out into the world, is marked with peaks and valleys and such a drive that you can't help but strap in for it all, while not wanting it to end.

Lush and cinematic, with the narrative drive and indelible power of Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, Ghalen is one of this bestselling, prize-winning writer's finest achievements.