Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
|---|---|
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Short story |
| Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
| Publication date | 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) & Paperback |
| Pages | 288 pp |
| ISBN | 0316925411 |
| OCLC Number | 40354776 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | PS3573.A425635 B65 1999 |
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of twenty-three short stories by David Foster Wallace. Several of the stories, all entitled "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," are presented as transcripts of interviews with male subjects. Each male has some repulsive characteristic upon which he elaborates. The questions of the hypothetical interviewer are omitted from the transcripts, allowing the stories to focus on the men themselves. These stories set the tone for the rest of the collection, which is characterized by dark dry humor, alienation, and bizarre sexuality.
In 1997 Wallace was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by editors of The Paris Review for “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6", which had appeared in the magazine.
Twelve of the "Interviews" were adapted into a stage play in 2000, marking the first theatrical adaptation of any of Wallace's works. The play, Hideous Men, was adapted and directed by Dylan McCullough and received its premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival in August of 2000.
Actor John Krasinski of The Office has adapted and directed a film version for release in 2009 based on the "Brief Interviews" stories. Julianne Nicholson plays Sara Quinn, the interviewer unnamed in the stories.
[edit] List of stories
- "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life"
- "Death Is Not the End"
- "Forever Overhead"
- "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
- "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI)"
- "The Depressed Person"
- "The Devil Is a Busy Man"
- "Think"
- "Signifying Nothing"
- "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
- "Datum Centurio"
- "Octet"
- "Adult World (I)"
- "Adult World (II)"
- "The Devil Is a Busy Man"
- "Church Not Made with Hands
- "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)"
- "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
- "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko"
- "On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon"
- "Suicide as a Sort of Present"
- "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
- "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XXIV)"
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