DAVID SIMON (CREATOR): My wife and I [had] just started dating then. My wife’s a novelist, and she was a contemporary of George’s. She’d been on me to read George. She goes, “You should read Pelecanos. He’s interested in the same stuff. His heart is where your heart is.” And I’m like, “Yeah, he’s from DC.” I had that Baltimore [thing], like, “I’m sorry, those are the lawyers who come to the Orioles games and sit there on their cell phones for five innings. Fuck those guys.” And I’m from DC originally, so I had sort of like [a] Baltimore chip on my shoulder. So, I hadn’t pulled one of his books
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