Nov 02 2007
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“ My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader…He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.
— Can’t believe (geddit?) I didn’t spot this The Believer interview with David Simon about the Wire. Thanks Alex!
