“‘When It’s Not Your Turn’: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s The Wire”

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March 30, 2011

We do our best to stay away from pop culture here at The Rumpus, but this gets a pass.

The reason? Well it’s not about the HBO hit series The Wire, but the Victorian masterpiece by “Horatio Bucklesby Ogden” also called, weirdly, The Wire:

Learn more here. (via TheBookBench)

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Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeneyâ€™s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed Newsâ€™ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

3 responses

Mark Folse

March 30, 2011

Slightly off topic, but I think to characterize David Simon’s film work, the novelistic scope and construction of The Wire or Treme, as “pop culture” is to greatly underestimate what he has undertaken and achieved. There is an excellent current interview this week in New Orleans’ music and culture magazine Offbeat.

http://www.offbeat.com/2011/04/01/david-simon-of-hbos-treme/
Isaac Fitzgerald

March 30, 2011

Trust me Mark, you’ll have no arguments with anyone at Rumpus HQ about that. Thanks for the link!
Mark Folse

March 31, 2011

And I guess I should have read the piece before I saddled up that high horse, because the similarities between the two Wires is uncanny. Love the accompanying artwork.