Interesting looking edited book – The Wire: Race, Class, and Genre, edited by Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro, published by University of Michigan Press. Here’s one of the publicity blurbs:

“This bravura collection of essays ratifies the opinion of millions of worldwide fans: The Wire is the urban Grapes of Wrath, with characters as vivid and enduring, and truths as radical and plain-spoken, as those in
Steinbeck’s masterpiece.”

Mike Davis, University of California, Riverside