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Opinion: Pelecanos, The Wire, and the Crime-slash-Literary 
corduroybooks (WordPress) | by Weston Cutter | Tue, May 12
Tue, May 12
What’s funny is that there’s a decent chance you’ve watched more George Pelecanos writing than you’ve ever read (the guy was one of the writers for The Wire). And if you have watched The Wire, you know the series’s arc is as thick and rich and inbent as any novel (ar, at least, as any novel by Den...
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