MattCarney::FictionWriter

Hard real­ism. Or maybe just dense but not impen­e­tra­ble real­ism. Regard­less of the title, it seems the new real­ism is in vogue at the moment with con­tem­po­rary writers—at the moment, mind you. Today’s lit jour­nal mas­ter­piece will be tomor­rows depression-era emer­gency toi­let paper. Or at least can be. Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not say­ing …