His chief thesis is that the traditional sociological account of crowd theory fails to understand the often complex problem of football violence as a particularly English working-class phenomenon. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979.īuford is credited with coining the term " dirty realism".Īmong the Thugs (1991) is presented as an insider's account of the world of (primarily) English football hooliganism. He remained in England for most of the 1980s.īuford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Southern California, attending the University of California, Berkeley from 1973 to 1977, before moving to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar until 1979. 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. Among the Thugs Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cookingīill Buford (born 1954) is an American author and journalist.
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