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Homicide by David Simon6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() The show based on the book was a great success, and you produce and write for the brilliant HBO series, The Wire. Virginia Harabin: Homicide was originally published in 1991 and has just been reissued with a new forward and afterward. ![]() Virginia Harabin asks David Simon about the politics of crime, the drug war, the Baltimore police, and his portrait of the contemporary American city. Both books served as the basis for TV series, including the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. He’s the author (with Ed Burns) of The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood, and of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, reissued this fall. David Simon is a native of the DC area and worked for many years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. ![]()
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