Grittiness? A rather old fashioned word. No wonder according to the Urban Dictionary it’s only used by critics. I can imagine a lot of old men smoking pipes and nodding sagely from leather armchairs as they mutter “gritty piece of work”, under their breaths. Edgy, real-life, ouos-f-the-cltoet. Our society is evolving, becoming more of an open book, literature is bound (last two puns were in incidental. I swear and cross my fingers) to reflect/influence that evolution.
