Poets & Writers Theater

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey is a television series adaptation of the 2010 novel of the same name by Walter Mosley. With a screenplay written by Mosley, the Apple TV+ miniseries stars Samuel L. Jackson as a man struggling with dementia who receives a treatment to regain his memory, helping him uncover mysteries from his family’s past.

“We claimed it first, this little mountain. Me and MaViolet and a scattering of neighbors,” reads Jocelyn Nicole Johnson from the title novella of her debut story collection, My Monticello (Henry Holt, 2021), which is featured in Page One in the November/December 2021 of Poets & Writers Magazine, in this reading and conversation with Walter Mosley for Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri.

“The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it.” In this 2011 Big Think interview, Walter Mosley talks about the influence of comic books and early reading on his writing, and his opinion of great literature.

“It’s like banning ideas, banning thoughts, banning people,” explains Walter Mosley, one of 13 authors who express in this video—released to recognize Banned Books Week 2013—their thoughts on censorship and banned books.