This just in: Since there are a lot of fans of “The Wire” in the NoVa Pop crew, and I mentioned the last season getting a DVD release tomorrow on Friday, y’all might want to know that local “Wire” producer and writer George Pelecanos will be doing a book signing tomorrow night at Politics & Prose downtown. Whereas “The Wire” takes place on the mean streets of Baltimore, his new crime novel “The Turnaround” – like his previous books – takes place in Washington. The noir thriller revisits a situation that happened in the summer of 1972, when three inebriated and high white kids went into a inner-city neighborhood, ran into three black youngsters and not all of them came back alive, and then picks up in the present, as the surviving men’s lives are still interwoven in tragedy. So not only do you get a good read out of the situation … you also get to meet a local literary superstar. Score! (Thanks to my main man Warren Rojas for the tip!)
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Meet “Wire” main man George Pelecanos!
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