2015 Tournament of Books Winner Announced

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March 31, 2015

After five rounds, sixteen books and more hard choices than we can count, The Morning News has chosen this year’s champion of the Tournament of Books. Who won, you ask? (Here’s a hint: we’re pretty happy about it.)

is a staff writer for The Millions and an MFA candidate at Johns Hopkins. Prior to coming to Baltimore, he studied literature and worked in IT while living in Dublin, Ireland. You can find him on Twitter at @tdbeckwith.

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Much Ado About Baltimore

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April 7, 2012
One consequence of creating a beloved show is that you've got to deal with superficial paeans to it. David Simon has to know this, but he still seems cranky in this interview. Of course I'm not saying he can't be chagrined by Grantland or Vulture's recent TV brackets (which Simon singled out in subsequent remarks), but when he says he's "it's wearying" for people "to be picking [The Wire] apart now like it’s a deck of cards or like they were there the whole time or they understood it the whole time," it's a bit harder to take his side, and you feel like he hasn't watched Erlend Lavik's sophisticated and thorough video essay about The Wire's visual style. Surely analyses like this (or Žižek's, which we've mentioned before) deserve due credit.
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