The Corner : A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Paperback)

from raycun

No anti-heroic criminal organisation here, just dealers who don't need to be very smart to make money quickly, and with nothing else to do soon because users themselves. This is much more about use...

from SeriousGrace

The Corner is very similar to Simon's other best selling book, Homicide: a Year on the Killing Streets. As a freelance writer he has been allowed access to the darkest and grittiest corners of West...

from AlCracka

The book they based The Wire on. Maybe not essential if you've seen the series, but I had fun. Read it in Puerto Rico in a hammock on an island, so that was pretty great.

from mrgan

Few novels can boast the combination Simon and Burns achieve here: absolute narrative clarity and complete emotional ownership of the reader. Armed with the tools of journalism and the humanity of ...

from HadriantheBlind

In Chapter 5 of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that chronicle of poverty in the Great Depression after a section on of the dejection of poverty, where the description transitions into a long string ...