Fiction in the Teens

I don't like most of the novels I have read in recent years.  My husband thinks I'm overly severe on contemporary fiction, but I just find very little to cheer about.  

I sometimes think that we're going to see an enormous upheaval in art soon, similar to what was experienced in the 1910s and 20s in Europe.  

When I read something like Infinite Jest I feel like things are just going from bad to worse.  But this effort to craft the cleverest sentence is bound to implode; and once it does, maybe then people will shake themselves free of the workshops and MFA programs.  People will move out into the fresh air again--to live, breathe, and write.