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Dirty Realism
Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life – a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict – but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate, these stories constitute a new voice in fiction.
“
A fucking gorilla was murdered in a zoo last month and you’re telling me to have faith in our country?
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― Hills
― Hills
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I open the toilet door and step out, my internal fire re-stoked, ready to face my demons, fight if need be and win. I’m raging, focused like a jungle warrior after his second bowl of tiger-cock soup.
”
― Untethered
― Untethered
"Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American lit…more
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