This Is How “The Wire” Creator David Simon Builds A Writing Team

“There’s nobody in there that woke up one morning and said, ‘I want to be a TV writer.’ And that’s why I’m interested in them.” You're either a fan of The Wire, or you're used to the looks of shock and pity you get when you tell people you still haven't seen it — not bad for a show that aired its last season seven years ago. Since then, The Wire creator David Simon has produced...

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This Is The Hardest "Divergent" Quiz You'll Ever Take

Can you get FOUR or more right...

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How Edward Snowden Inadvertently Helped Vladimir Putin's Internet Crackdown

Edward Snowden’s exposés of the National Security Agency’s global surveillance sparked calls to roll them back around the world. But in Russia, where he claimed asylum, Vladimir Putin’s censors seized on his revelations to justify unprecedented control over the internet — and expand the Kremlin’s surveillance state in the very manner he so feared. What follows is an edited...

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The Case For The Muted Sex Scene

Ben King / BuzzFeed I didn’t think I needed much for a sex scene to turn me on, but after trying, really trying, to delve into “literary” romance novels, feminist romance, erotic fiction, and steampunk paranormal romance, I became disenchanted. Bored by bodies stirring and intense waves of pleasure. Friends of all kinds, married women with kids, single twentysomethings, divorced...

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