Tag: the wire
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Scenes from My Life: A Memoir by Michael K. Williams
This memoir is a story of addiction that sadly killed him before he could see it in print. It’s a lot more than that too.
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
It’s interesting to read this book so soon after The New Jim Crow. They’re products of a different era, but they have some surprising parallels. This is the book that made David Simon, and while it’s fun to hunt easter eggs and find the seeds of his work in this, it’s an incredible achievement on…