“For serious Wire aficionados, both Lippman’s name and appearance will be familiar. A character is seen reading one of her novels in season one, while in season five she has a brief cameo as a Baltimore Sun journalist (‘I got terrible reviews!’). She also points out that Simon stole jokes, a song and the names of two detectives from her novels. ‘He has definitely taken more from my work than I’ve taken from his,’ she says, looking rather pleased about it.”