Our Fiction issue has arrived. This is great news for anyone who picks the magazine up in its papery form, but if you are more of an online savourer of our work, then you might have noticed that a lot of the issue has been here for the last week. If you like the sound of original fiction by John Moore, Sam McPheeters, Blake Bailey and interviews with the guy who wrote The Wire, the chaps who made those fighting fantasy books that made school bearable, the guy who wrote From Hell and Watchmen, and a man who knows a lot about what taking speed does to writing style, then this issue is our seasonal gift to you.
Posts Tagged ‘the wire’
LAZY BLOG POST
It’s Friday and we don’t have the energy to take Islamic extremists out for milkshakes or destroy valuable pieces of art or uncover hidden cities in the Far East, or even do something stupid with a picture of some girls puking. Instead we’re going to watch the 100 best quotes from The Wire. Click through and watch it, it’s pretty good. Read more »
RHYS VS STRINGER
Have you ever been to The Griffin? It’s great. The floor dissolved a decade ago, last month one of the buttresses feel off, they’ve got a hot Northern Irish barmaid, a pool table, a jukebox with Oasis on it, funny crisps you’ve never eaten before and (kind of) clean toilets. It’s next to our office and today, for some reason, Stringer Bell from The Wire was there filming some hot new shit. Lots of people in our office with DVD players at home were very excited, and none more so than our handsome new intern Rhys, who ran out to meet a man who’s easily one of his top 1,000 heroes on HBO. They did this sweet-ass interview. Read more »
An interview with Donnie Andrews, the real-life Omar Little
By now, if you haven’t watched The Wire or read Homicide and The Corner, the two astonishing books that acted as source material for the HBO series, something’s seriously lacking from your life. If you have you’ll know that Omar Little, the incredibly violent but still strongly moral stick-up artist, is one of the most compelling fictional creations ever to slam a shotgun into a dealer’s face.
Except he’s not wholly a fictional creation – his life and modus operandi was inspired by Donnie Andrews, a former stick-up artist, convicted murderer and all-round Baltimore bad-ass. After spending 18 years in jail he’s been working with his local communities back in Maryland and there’s currently a film being made of his life by Brad Pitt’s production company. I recently had a chat with Donnie. Read more »
Err, scoop of the year much?
Sheeeeeeeiiiiiiit! Vice can exclusively reveal that The Wire will return for a sixth series in 2010. David Simon and Ed Burns are currently in negotiation with HBO and The BBC with plans to make the next season of the cult show, but this time utilising even more British talent than the previous seasons, (for those of you not “in the know”, both Stringer Bell and Jimmy McNulty are actual Brits). Read more »
