generation had become "a literary genre all its own." [22] He classed among them Sylvia Plath 's The Bell Jar (1963), Hunter S. Thompson 's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), Jay McInerney 's Bright Lights, Big City (1984), and Dave Eggers 's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000). The writer Aimee Bender was