In his 2010 essay "David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction," Adam Kelly argues that Wallace's fiction, and that of his generation, is marked by a revival and theoretical reconception of sincerity, challenging the emphasis on authenticity that dominated twentieth-century literature and conceptions of the self.
In his 2010 essay "David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction," Adam Kelly contends that Wallace's writing, as well as that of his peers, marks a resurgence and theoretical redefinition of sincerity, which challenges the prominence of authenticity that dominated twentieth-century literature and self-understanding.