Wire work

Oct. 15th, 2007 09:39 pm
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Speaking of The Wire: here's Season 5!

The fifth and final season of HBO's "The Wire" begins in January, this time focusing on layoffs at The Sun — where Simon once worked — and how newspapers fail to capture certain complex truths. Previous seasons of the acclaimed drama have featured drug dealers, struggling longshoremen, city politicians and inner-city students.

The drama is actually about "the decline of the American empire" and the failure of postmodern institutions, Simon said.


Meanwhile David Simon's next HBO show will be about "musicians reconstituting their lives in New Orleans", which sounds suitably unusual and interesting.

Date: 2007-10-15 10:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] despotliz.livejournal.com
This is the New Yorker profile the AP seem to have got their information from.

Date: 2007-10-15 11:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] iainjclark.livejournal.com
That's a really excellent piece, thanks.

Date: 2007-10-16 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pigeonhed.livejournal.com
Occasiopnal The Wire writer Rafael Alvarez also wrote for The Sun for many years, before quitting to work on a boat out of Patasco.

Yeah i know, I keep banging on about Alvarez, but the guy is one of the best short fiction writers I have ever read.

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