New Sincerity

"Liking people is good, stop being maladjusted moody teenagers and appreciate the little things in life. You insufferable dorks. Postmodern irony and cynicism suck. Embrace new sincerity."

"I found it an actually interesting forum for Nick to try to work through some of his insane, recursive contrarianism and arrive at something close to DFW-style 'New Sincerity'."

"Every book is exactly the same but when somebody tells him his books are funny he says something like "I actually thought it was a very sad book""