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Still not bleak house.

By Emily M. Keeler posted at 4:00 pm on September 17, 2012 0

Laura Miller wants us all to stop calling The Wire a Victorian novel, because it is in fact a television drama.

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Emily M. Keeler is the editor of Little Brother Magazine, and the #LitBeat editor for The Millions. She also acts as the Toronto editor for Joyland. And she tweets, too.

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