When the Las Vegas Sun revealed last year that then-Sen. Barack Obama’s favorite show was The Wire, and furthermore to that, his favorite character in his favorite show was Omar, it was this confluence of awesome: something I liked very much met with someone I liked more every day. So I smiled when I saw he was continuing that streak with his summer reading list:
Burton told reporters that the president’s reading
list includes “The Way Home” by George Pelecanos, “Hot, Flat and
Crowded” by Tom Friedman, “Lush Life” by Richard Price,
“Plainsong” by Kent Haruf and “John Adams” by David McCullough.
TWO Wire writers! Newsday managed to cram this actual vacation story through the horde of “look-how-expensive-this-is!!!!” attention-grabbers. Pelecanos, who wrote eight episodes of the show and produced 12, might be best recognized as the guy who got a character to read his own book in a scene. Richard Price wrote five episodes and plays the guy who talks to D’Angelo about The Great Gatsby(before he was a writer on the show).
Also…Tom Friedman…ha.
