1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 5 July d6/4 The serious novel has become the province of the local colorists and ‘dirty realists’ and the comic novel has become all but moribund.

1992 Atlantic May 123/1 Carver has also been grouped with Richard Ford..and Andre Dubus as a ‘dirty realist’, a writer of ‘grit lit’, and so forth.

2000 Dallas Morning News (Electronic ed.) 1 July 41 He made paintings of..scenes of suburban American desolation with an innovative, satirical minimalism that provided a visual counterpart to the savagings of literature's Dirty Realists, such as Tobias Wolff and Richard Ford.

1984 P. Whitman in Poetry Austral. No. 96. 82 (title of poem) Wow, a dirty realist prosepoem.

1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 May g1 Vega..might more accurately be considered the pop music equivalent of the new ‘dirty realist’ writers, such as Raymond Carver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ellen Gilchrist.

1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 May 20 Reekie's first published work was his own translations of French symbolist poet Baudelaire, with whom his writing has far more in common than any dirty-realist pretenders.