Granta 19: More Dirt: The New American Fiction

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #19

by Bill Buford (Editor)

Essays on Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the working lives of two writers accompanying short stories about the lower class in America

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1986

About the author

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".

Reviews

[Josh]

For me, some of these pieces resonated more than others. Richard Ford, Primo Levi. The Richard Russo story really stood out.