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.

Post Office
Ham on Rye
Women
Factotum
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cathedral
South of No North
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
Jesus’ Son
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
Hollywood
Love Is a Dog from Hell
No Country for Old Men
J.C. Wickhart
Most Tea Party members are old pride-filled morons who have no good reasoning to concern themselves with politics, just tired old self-righteous and self-proclaimed patriots wanting to start some type of Nazi-like revolution, mainly because they hate Obama and they have a dumb sense that their lives and generation is quickly coming to a halt and none of them like it. They claim they don’t want their rights stripped away from them, so they will do anything in their power to stop that, including s ...more
J.C. Wickhart, Inappropriate

J.C. Wickhart
I’m too big of a fan of sin and debauchery to be a Christian.
J.C. Wickhart, Inappropriate

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Dirty realism "Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American lit…more
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