角落
The corner
David Simon、Edward Burns、Ed Burns · 初版 1997 年
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为什么值得读
- 呈现美剧火线背后最真实的社会场景
- 直观展现毒品文化对普通人生活的摧残
- 揭示毒品战争的失效与严重负面后果
巴尔的摩West Fayette街与Monroe街交汇处的臭名昭著街角，是一个全天候开放的露天毒品市场，为这个走向衰败的社区提供着经济燃料。通过一个破碎家庭的视角——两名吸毒成瘾的成年人及其聪慧脆弱的15岁儿子DeAndre McCollough——Simon与Burns深入审视了全美内陆城市的严酷现实，并毫不留情地剖析了为何执法政策、道德说教与福利制度收效甚微。
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……那里经历了 150 年的种族冲突——白人仇视黑人，黑人仇视白人。这一切完全是毁灭性的，真的该停止了。不妨看看几集《街角》（The Corner，http://www.amazon.com/Corner-Year-Life-Inner-City-Neighborho... ）。它是根据一位记者在巴尔的摩跟踪报道一个家庭一年的真实记录改编的。这也符合我的个人经历……
…it has had 150 years of racial warfare - whites hating on blacks, blacks hating on whites. All of it has been entirely destructive, and it really needs to stop. Try watching a couple episodes of The Corner ( http://www.amazon.com/Corner-Year-Life-Inner-City-Neighborho... ). It's based on a the account of a journalist who spent a year following a family in Baltimore. It also matches my personal experiences…
如果你想了解《火线》（The Wire）的真实背景，去读读大卫·西蒙（David Simon）和埃德·伯恩斯（Ed Burns）写的《街角：贫民区一年的生活》（The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood）。书中对当今最破败内城街区的描写令人心碎又不安。
If you want the real setting for "The Wire", read " The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" by David Simon and Ed Burns. The depiction of one of today's most derelict inner-city neighborhoods is heartbreaking and disconcerting.
如果你想要更切肤入骨的实录，大卫·西蒙的《街角》是一部非虚构纪实作品，记录了巴尔的摩毒品文化对深陷其中的人们的影响。西蒙花了大约一年时间（1993年左右）跟踪采访了生活在某个特定……
If you want a more visceral account, "The Corner" by David Simon is a non-fiction chronicle of the Baltimore drug culture's effect on the people who live in it. Simon spent about year (~1993) following and interviewing the people who lived on a specific…
不幸的是，这样的地方依然存在。如果你对贫民窟的现代视角感兴趣，可以读读大卫·西蒙（《火线》和《劫后余生》的主创）的《街角》。核心要义是：现行形式的毒品战争根本行不通，其副作用……
Unfortunately, places like these still exist. Read 'The Corner' by David Simon (creator of The Wire and Treme) if you're interested in a more modern take on the ghetto. Take home message: the war on drugs in its current form is not working and the side effects are…
非虚构类的话，我经常会想起大卫·西蒙的《凶案组：街头杀戮之年》（Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets）以及他和埃德·伯恩斯合著的《街角：贫民区一年的生活》。它们既极度幽默又极度悲伤，切切实实改变了我看待世界的方式。算我耍赖吧，推了两本。
For nonfiction I think about Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon (and Ed Burns for The Corner) a lot. They are very funny and very sad and really changed how I see the world. So I cheated, two books.
……这是我读过的关于新闻实践最好的一本书。在跟着刑警跑了一年后，你可能会觉得西蒙已经跟警方穿同一条裤子了……但他写完《凶案组》紧接着就写了《街角》，他在那里花了一整年深入毒贩和瘾君子群体……据说，在出了一本把……曝光的书之后，他在巴尔的摩警察局建立的绝大多数友谊都烟消云散了。
…book about the practice of journalism I've ever read. After a year following the detectives, you'd think Simon would be pretty much in cahoots with the police...but he followed up "Homicide" with "The Corner", in which he spent a year embedded with drug dealers and their customers...apparently most of the friendsships he made in the Baltimore Police department evaporated after he published a book bringing…