http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/the_wire PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22586 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22586 <p>New Yorker; 10/22/2007, Vol. 83 Issue 32, p150-163, 13p </p><p>The article profiles author and television producer David Simon. Simon, a former reporter for the newspaper &quot;The Baltimore Sun,&quot; created the television program &quot;The Wire&quot; about drug crimes in Baltimore. Convicted drug dealer Melvin Williams plays a role on the program. Simon comments how the program depicts the devaluation of people and how much of the program's content is inspired by real events. He describes his struggle to get the program aired on the cable network Home Box Office (HBO).</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22585 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22585 &ldquo;All in the Game: The Wire, Serial Storytelling and Procedural Logic&rdquo;<br />Jason Mittell, Middlebury College<br />Forthcoming in Third Person, edited by Pat Harrigan &amp; Noah Wardip-Fruin (MIT Press, 2008)