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Fri., Sept. 16
Hyperlocal Week in Review

Week in Review

Today we plug into community papers and alternative presses for a look at this week’s hyper-local news. This hour Peter Kadzis, executive editor of The Boston Phoenix, and Sue O’Connell, publisher of Bay Windows and South End News, bring their reporting to the airwaves .

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Viva La Literature

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Let's Do the Time Warp (Never) Again!

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Week in Review

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

*Originally aired 11/02/12
Walter Mosley on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Late last year, Walter Mosley joined us to talk about his latest novel, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. Mosley’s protagonist, Ptolemy Grey, is an old, ailing recluse living in a dump of a cluttered apartment. His mind, on a downward spiral of dementia, is equally cluttered with a mashup of memories: the death of his wife, the lynching of a friend, his service in World War II. Then everything changes when he’s offered a Faustian bargain—a drug that will restore his brain in exchange for a shorter life. He takes the plunge, hoping mental clarity will help him solve a murder. Though Mosley may be best known for detective novels, his writing spans all genres: literary fiction, science fiction, crime and social commentary. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Mosely uses threads from all of these styles to tell the story of mortality and morality.

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Walter Mosley: writer

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