Hornby interviews Simon

Nick Hornby, of all people, interviews David Simon about his show THE WIRE in BELIEVER magazine.

think what you sense in The Wire is that it is violating a good many of the conventions and tropes of episodic television. It isn’t really structured as episodic television and it instead pursues the form of the modern, multi-POV novel. Why?

And Simon goes on to answer his own question.

As reader Pardis P wrote me,

I've only read an excerpt, but he talks about what their intentions for the show were versus what they actually pitched to HBO. Soul-crushing, in some ways. A reminder that we're selling content to attract eyeballsin others.