Summary
IN THE Main Tent, David Simon is telling a story. He's told it many times before and he'll tell it many times more, because when people ask where The Wire comes from, this is where it begins.
Christmas Day, 1985, the homicide section of Baltimore Police Department. A young crime reporter wanders in with a bottle of cheap whisky. It's not a busy day: no murders, just the odd shooting and a stabbing. So there's time to talk. Drink, talk, and drink some more. "You know," says the homicide sergeant, "if someone sat around here for a whole year and wrote a book - man, that would be some story."See the full content of this document
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Book Festival Reviews: A Wire That Runs Through History
All fans of The Wire know what happens next, but he tells the story all the same. How that quote became a year spent with the 36- man murder squad; how the year became a book (Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets), which became a TV series, Homicide: Life on the Street; how Homicide....
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