Wasn't sure where else to post this, but I had to share. This is from David Simon, writer/producer of The Wire, in the liner notes to the soundtrack (which is itself excerpted from an e-mail exchange between Simon and Nick Hornby from the August 2007 issue of The Believer magazine):
"My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the aver…