sentiment away from TV's colonization of all things soulful and human, and I would applaud all the youngish Americans—Franzen, Moody, Foster Wallace, Eggers, Moore for their (supposedly) small but, to me, significant triumphs. They work to keep both sides of the equation—brain and heart—present in their fiction. Even if you find them obtuse, they can rarely be accused of cliché..." (op. cit.). Works Some books described as examples of hysterical realism are: Eggers, Dave (2000). A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Fuguet, Alberto (2000). The Movies of My Life. See also American realism Genre studies Literary realism Literary theory Magic realism Maximalism Realism (arts) Postmodernism References Further reading External links US novelists must now abandon social and theoretical glitter, says James Wood, The Guardian Fiction by genre Postmodern art Literary realism 2000s neologisms Postmodern literature 1990s in literature 2000s in literature