The Wire

Ink and Beans: Are You a Honker? Die.

Source: Ink and Beans

Consider Me Climaxed · Writing the Climax · Biweekly: A Useless Word · Writer's Blog Progress - First 55 days · Top Five Available Pen Names · "The Wire" Creator David Simon Comes to Harvard · Celebrity Sightings in the Mirror ...

Published Tue, Nov 25

A modest proposal « A blog from the back room.

Source: hopisen (WordPress)

This proved no burden at all, as I was able to devour David Simon’s “Homicide”, a book based on his year with the Baltimore police department and which would become the inspiration for his stunning HBO show, The Wire. ...

Published Tue, Nov 25

Planet Money Makes Me Realize Storytelling Is Missing From My ...

Source: INDEX

I have been thinking a lot about journalism since The Wire’s David Simon addressed the craft’s decline in a recent speech. I have been thinking about it since I read a story on saving journalism in the Columbia journalism review. ...

Published Mon, Nov 24

Quiet Bubble: Movie love A to Z

Source: Quiet Bubble

W: The Wire (created by David Simon, 2002-2008). The Wire is the most complex portrayal of racial dynamics, political structures, social institutions, and the ways in which these three interweave that has ever been seen on American ...

Published Sun, Nov 23

Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, The Biography by Bob Andelman: "A ...

Source: A Spirited Life, The Biography by Bob Andelman

David Simon The Wire; The Corner; Homicide: Life on the Streets. David Fury 24, Lost; Buffy; Dream On. Bob Horowitz The Singing Bee; Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials. Rasha Drachkovitch ...

Published Fri, Nov 21

Connecticut Forum: "Moviemakers, Writers And Artists"

Source: Hartford Courant

 United States - Nov 20, 2008 This moderated discussion and question session features David Simon, Tony Kushner, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Simon is the creator of HBO's "The Wire" and ...

Published Thu, Nov 20

babblebook: Who Do You Root For?: but not me personally were those ...

Source: babblebook

Currently Watching. This American Life, Season 1 · Synecdoche, New York · Tell No One; John Adams (HBO); The Wire, Season 5; The Wire, Season 4; Mad Men, Season 2; Mad Men, Season 1; The Wire, Season 3 ...

Published Wed, Nov 19

Socialist Appeal - The Wire and the American Nightmare

Source: Socialist Appeal

What is undoubtable is that it truthfully tells the tale of the “betrayal of the American working class”, which was its creator David Simon’s goal. The fact that it could only be released on HBO, the advert-free network, ...

Published Wed, Nov 19