I found two interesting interviews with David Simon on the web site for Baltimore magazine:

One is about Generation Kill and his next project, Treme. Money quote from the interview:

Interviewer: What’s next?

Simon: Treme. A story set in the musical culture of post-Katrina New Orleans. The title is that of a historic and predominantly black neighborhood just back of town from the French Quarter. We have a green light from HBO on the pilot but will have to wait until next summer to know if we are to film the first season.

Here's another one from back in February.

Wire Cast at Museum of Moving Image

Sounded like a nice night. I would have liked to have been there.

And the Season Five DVD box comes out on Aug. 12.

- I've watched the first two episodes of "Generation Kill." I think it's very good. It's a little hard to tell all the characters apart though. But it has great dialogue and shows the perspective of the soliders very well. I'm not enraptured by it, but I enjoy watching it.

- And George Pelecanos' new novel "The Turnaround" just came out. I've read "Soul Circus" and "Hard Revolution." Very good. I enjoyed them better than Dennis Lehane's "Shutter Island." Pelecanos' novels just do such a great job of capturing a sense of place - of driving around a city, listening to music, seeing people, hearing and seeing things. It seems to me to be a particularly unique form of urban American realism.

There's a lot in his novels. I recommend picking one up. I'll have to check out some the Richard Price novels at some point too that one of this blog's readers recommended.

- Lastly, I am now the articles editor at www.newgeography.com. Check it out!