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- Philip Roth's novel "The Plot Against America," an alternate history that imagines the 1940 election of Charles Lindbergh as president and an increase in anti-Semitism in America, will be adapted for television by David Simon, the award-winning writer and producer of the “The Wire.”
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Jan 16, 2018 · David Simon is adapting Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America for television, both the novelist and the creator of The Wire said on Monday. Shortly after the six-part...
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Jul 14, 2020 · David Simon and Ed Burns might not have been the obvious choices to adapt Philip Roth ’s 2004 novel, set in an alternate-reality America where the aviator Charles Lindbergh (played here...
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Over six episodes, host Peter Sagal (of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me) and creator and executive producer David Simon discuss The Plot Against America, HBO’s riveting adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel of the same name.
Mar 16, 2020 · Created by David Simon and Ed Burns and based on the novel by Philip Roth, the six-part HBO limited series The Plot Against America follows a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey...
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Jan 16, 2018 · David Simon, the award-winning writer and producer of the hit series “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “The Wire,” is adapting Philip Roth’s novel “The Plot Against America” into a...
Nov 8, 2018 · Liam Mathews Nov. 8, 2018, 11:04 a.m. PT. The Wire and The Deuce creator David Simon is officially doing another limited series for HBO, Variety reports. The network has ordered a six-part...
Mar 5, 2020 · David Simon has translated Philip Roth’s 2004 alternate history novel into an HBO mini-series, Simon’s first literary adaptation. Share full article. In “The Plot Against America,” the...