Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.

Origin

Coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine in 1983.

Coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine in 1983.

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See also

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