David Simon Reads From THE WIRE: Truth Be Told (Audio Book)

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David Simon Reads From THE WIRE: Truth Be Told (Audio Book)

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, and the epitome of the opposite of a Baltimoron, has recorded the introduction for a new book called Truth Be Told – THE WIRE, about his hit HBO Show, The Wire. Here’s the audio book intro. Good stuff, if you’re a DIE HARD The Wire fan, like myself and so many others, you’re going to be all about it. He really helped put Baltimore on the map, and I think just as a result of the spotlight this cult classic show has put on the city, it will make it a better place to live and visit.

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2 Responses to “David Simon Reads From THE WIRE: Truth Be Told (Audio Book)”

Fuelbot says:

10/01/2009 at 8:55 AM

Greatest show ever written. Fuck everything else on television.

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Links for 2010-02-08 – Ed Muscle Internet Deathbed says:

02/08/2010 at 3:56 AM

[...] David Simon reads his intro to a book about The Wire [The Wire] was about the city. It was about how we in the west live at the millenium, an urbanized species compacted together sharing a common love, awe, and fear of what we have rendered, not only in Baltimore or St. Louis or Chicago, but in Manchester or Amsterdam or Mexico City or Cairo as well. At best, our metropolises are the ultimate aspiration of community, the repository for every myth and hope of people clinging to the sides of the ever more fragile pyramid that is capitalism. [...]

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