Bill FisherOn the eve of the fourth season of HBO's fantasy hit Game of Thrones, Wesleyan Visiting Writer in English Jim Windolf talks with series creators D.B. Weiss '93 and David Benioff and novelist George R.R. Martin – on whose works the show is based – in Vanity Fair: "Based on 'A Song of Ice and Fire,' the epic series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the show seemed like an odd fit for HBO. But Benioff and Weiss believed it was in the tradition of The Sopranos, Deadwood, Oz, and other HBO shows in that it would breathe…
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