[...] this new project of realism is founded on the search for human truth and linguistic honesty, guided by the principle of communication and aware of its own necessary fallibility. It is further hoped that the writing of this generation will come to be seen not as the undirected hysteria of a generation bellowing to be heard above the noise, but rather the carefully modulated representation of world where noise has become the inescapable background, a world of what Wallace called "Total Noise" ("Deciderization" xix), in which to silence the constant hum would be to misrepresent reality. [...]