I was late to David Simon’s ‘The Wire.’  I don’t have cable TV.  However, I am hooked on this gritty TV (and now DVD) series about life, death, crime, honor, and corruption in Baltimore. My wife and I have now seen four out of the five seasons of the show. We borrow the DVDs for a season from our public library and then watch all of the episodes over a one-week period. Exhausting and exhilarating.

In the 14 October 2010 issue of the New York Review of Books, Lorrie Moore writes In the Life of ‘The Wire’.

Read the article and then borrow the first season from your local library or from NetFlix.

Note: After a certain (or uncertain) length of time, NYRB articles disappear behind a subscriber pay-wall.

-RichardH