Posted on Monday, 10 September 2012

housingworksbookstore: flavorpill: theatlantic: ‘The Wire’ As a Victorian Novel Most people know The Wire as the HBO police drama set in Baltimore—an intricate five-season exploration of the brokenness of the inner-city’s war on drugs, education system, politics, and policing, and one of the most lauded television shows of all time. Fewer people know that it was originally a Victorian serial by the almost forgotten writer H.B. Ogden. Such, at least, was the claim of Sean Michael Robinson and Joy DeLyria, who wrote Down in the Hole: the unWired World of H.B. Ogden. They accompanied their text with drawings (by Robinson) from the original Wire, including a striking depiction of Omar Little walking down a London street as urchins scatter around him. Read more. [Image: powerHouse Books] always reblog  Remember this? We are hosing an event for the book, complete with performance: Down in the Hole: the unWired World of H.B. Ogden, Thursday, September 27.

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‘The Wire’ As a Victorian Novel

Most people know The Wire as the HBO police drama set in Baltimore—an intricate five-season exploration of the brokenness of the inner-city’s war on drugs, education system, politics, and policing, and one of the most lauded television shows of all time. Fewer people know that it was originally a Victorian serial by the almost forgotten writer H.B. Ogden. Such, at least, was the claim of Sean Michael Robinson and Joy DeLyria, who wrote Down in the Hole: the unWired World of H.B. Ogden. They accompanied their text with drawings (by Robinson) from the original Wire, including a striking depiction of Omar Little walking down a London street as urchins scatter around him.

Read more. [Image: powerHouse Books]

always reblog 

Remember this? We are hosing an event for the book, complete with performance: Down in the Hole: the unWired World of H.B. Ogden, Thursday, September 27.

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