The Wire

By Tim Weaver Author Dennis Lehane coined this line in one of his short stories, and later it was used by Marlo Stanfield in season 4 of The Wire. The context of the line is that Marlo, the most powerful and wealthiest drug kingpin in the city, a modern-day King Richard type, has just stolen a lollipop from a...

By Tim Weaver Nay, this is about the book that served as the inspiration for The Wire; which affords it an immediate hollowed status in contemporary literature. Clockers by Richard Price is quite frankly one of the best books I have ever read in my life.