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
Dean Lilleyman
In this cell you are small. They’ve taken your belt and your shoelaces. You break a little. You put your hands over your face so they don’t see. They don’t listen when you shout for water, Please. Your tongue is so dry it feels too big for your mouth. You don’t sleep. Someone behind the door shouts BASTARDS BASTARDS. You think you can see an old man crouched and watching you in that dark corner over there. You try and make spit to drink but you can’t. In the morning they give you half a plastic ...more
Dean Lilleyman, Billy and the Devil

David Foster Wallace
HISTORIA RADICALMENTE CONCENTRADA DE LA ERA POSTINDUSTRIAL Cuando fueron presentados, él hizo un comentario ingenioso porque quería caer bien. Ella soltó una risotada estrepitosa porque quería caer bien. Luego los dos cogieron sus coches y se fueron solos a sus casas, mirando fijamente la carretera, con la misma mueca en la cara. Al hombre que los había presentado no le caía demasiado bien ninguno de los dos, pero fingía que sí porque le preocupaba mucho tener buenas relaciones con todo el mund ...more
David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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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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