Walter Mosley is best known for his Easy Rawlins detective novels, which incorporate an African-American perspective and an historic sense of race relations into the classic hard-boiled genre. Mosley talks with Kurt Andersen about his remarkable career and his new novel Fortunate Son, which follows the fortunes of two boys—one white and the other black—raised as brothers and separated by fate.
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