Dirty Realists
Dirty realism (Kmart 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.[2]
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
Tobias Wolff (1945)
Richard Ford (1944)
Larry Brown (1951-2004)
Frederick Barthelme (1943)
Cormac McCarthy (1930)
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950)
Fernando Velázquez Medina (1951)
Jayne Anne Phillips (1952).