Walter Mosley in conversation with Andre Hardy, discusses and signs "Hanging and Burning".

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Join Diesel, in partnership with the Santa Monica Library on Tuesday October 27th at 6:00 pm as we welcome Walter Mosley in conversation with Andre Hardy to discuss and sign Hanging and Burning. This event is free to attend and will be held at the Miles Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Parking Instructions: The venue is on Lincoln Blvd near the corner of Wilshire Blvd. Underground parking is available at the library (which is 2 blocks away from the venue) via 7th St driveway, across from the Fire Department. First half hour is free and Library can provide an additional 1 hour free validation ticket. “This event is free to attend, but seating is limited. To reserve a seat, purchase a book via the link(s) below. Reserved seating will be held until 10 minutes prior to event. Guests on standby will be admitted at that time, as space allows.” Walter Mosley Book Purchase/Seat Reservation Andre Hardy Book Purchase/Seat Reservation A dying gangster's plea sends Joe King Oliver on a quest for a missing woman across America's coasts—unraveling a dark and violent family history along the way. Joe King Oliver is the big man you call to solve the most delicate and dangerous of problems. Fresh off unraveling the mystery of his own parents’ fates, King finds himself accepting (again at his grandmother’s request) a case from Arman Babylon, a powerful Los Angeles gangster now dying from cancer. Babylon’s granddaughter, Twyla Mann, has been missing for years, and he’s desperate to find her before he passes. The search pulls King into the Babylons’ stained past and the cold case of Dalia Shorts, a torch singer who vanished without a trace and whom Arman was once suspected of killing. As King follows her trail from L.A. to New York and back, he’ll realize nothing is what it seems as he uncovers a pattern of violence that has targeted the women around Babylon for decades. How much will King be willing to risk to finally set things right? 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. 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+. He co-wrote the adaptation of his novel The Man in My Basement to stream on Hulu, and he served as a writer and executive producer for FX’s Snowfall. He divides his time between Brooklyn and Santa Monica. Andre Hardy has written across multiple genres, including creative nonfiction, essays and short stories, screenwriting, and long-form narrative. Andre’s essays, interviews, and critical analysis have been published in L.A. Tribe Magazine, Lunch Ticket, Antioch University’s cutting-edge literary and visual arts journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His short story, “Negro in a Hot Tub,” is featured in Made in L.A.: An Anthology of Stories Rooted in the City of Angels, written by Los Angeles-based writers. Andre was the fourth pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1984 National Football League draft. He is a member of the NFL Retired Players Association and the NFL Legends Community, and he earned his MFA through the NFL Players Trust tuition reimbursement program. Andre was born and raised in San Diego and recently moved to Charlotte, NC with his beautiful wife, renowned Buddhist meditation teacher JoAnna Hardy.

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Diesel, A Bookstore

225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA

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