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An interview with David Simon, by Nick Hornby
Posted On: October 1, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.”
Read More...Win a copy of The Wire: Truth Be Told, signed by David Simon [closed]
Posted On: September 4, 2009Posted In: Competitions
Publisher: Canongate
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The Wire has been widely hailed as the greatest television series of all time. It portrays the war of attrition between the city’s hardened police force, and its drug dealers, and the blurring of good and evil, justice and injustice, right and wrong. Truth Be Told is the definitive guide.
Read More...Thomas Levenson Q&A
Posted On: August 14, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Thomas Levenson is the author of Newton and the Counterfeiter. Here, he sheds further light on why he felt compelled to write about Newton and ‘the scoundrel’, how much he enjoyed researching 18th-century London, and what new material the reader can expect to encounter in the book.
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