Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Foster Wallace
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: 1990’s
- Setting: Towns and cities throughout the United States
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Fathers, Death or dying, Depression, mental, 1990’s
- Locales: United States
Although Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a collection of short stories, its unifying threads make it an almost-novel. A glance at the table of contents reveals that the book’s title is drawn from four listed entries of the same name, which are separated by several other stories, some of which also recur. “Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders,” for instance, appears three times with a different roman numeral following it each time. As it so happens, many of the stories apart from the interviews also focus on hideous men.
In “A Radically...
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