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Was it the long tail of cable television, the need for men to find a place reassert themselves into the national conversation, or simply a natural home for adult storytelling, at a time when the movies have ceded this territory.
GQ correspondent Brett Martin takes an in depth look in Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
My conversation with Brett Martin: