The Story is framed within the so-called dirty realism of Latin America (led by the famous Cuban Pedro Juan Gutiérrez).

And then there is 'dirty realism', which treats of stunted lives in exquisitely honed prose.

Reviewers and literary critics associated the stories in Rock Springs with the aesthetic movement known as dirty realism.

Looking back now, Ford makes no claims that "dirty realism" was anything but "a bit of genius marketing".

This writing was congealed under the rubrics of "self-reflexivity" and "Fabulism," just as the younger writers today are lumped together under "minimalism" and "dirty realism."

Setting her stories in the show business world that she loved, she served up a canny combination of glamour, mischief and dirty realism.

Tyler's writing style has been described as dirty realism.

Specifically, he showed how to yoke the equine demands of the body to the golden cart of fantasy, to create a form of dirty magic realism.

Although not definitively affiliated with any particular literary movement, the magazine acquired its reputation by publishing short pieces of dirty realism.

This will be welcomed by admirers of Sebold's dirty realism, quasi-poetic style and helter-skelter storytelling gifts.