"Bill Buford" is an American author and journalist. Buford is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.

He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Southern California, attending the University of California, Berkeley/

University of California at Berkeley before moving to King's College, Cambridge/King's College, University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. He remained in England for most of the 1980s.

Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979.

Bufford is credited with the term "Dirty realism/dirty realism".

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Dario doesn't like the color green, ... He's an advocate of brown.

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Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have had this idea of their story in their head, which is a story that they read over and over again, then an actor will do completely different things that they didn't know were there.

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There's not stuffiness, there's not reverence about literature ... it's actually very hip, often spontaneous, dramatizations of what's appearing in the magazine, to show just how alive and up-to-the-minute some of the fiction can be.

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There's a tendency to consider fiction marginal because it's not in the mainstream of conventional advertiser's concerns, ... What these things do is show how powerful fiction is ... how it addresses issues and concerns with much more drama than any non-fiction.

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