Former LA Weekly Writer Talks About New HBO Series
By AAN Staff
july 14, 2008 03:19 pm
After writing a couple of
significant freelance pieces for the
Weekly, Evan Wright embedded with the U.S. Marines' in 2003 as they crossed the Kuwaiti border at the beginning of the Iraq War. Wright wrote a book about the experience called "Generation Kill," and the creators of the widely lauded HBO series "The Wire" made the book into a seven-episode miniseries that premiered last night on the pay-cable network.