Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Name: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
ISBN: 9780349111889

3/5

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.

Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, the.

First published: 2012
Publishers: Little· Brown Book Group Limited
Language: English

I'm not a literary genius as clearly some of the author's fans are but, I'm bright enough to know this was really self indulgent and asked a whole lot of the reader without giving much back. I did enjoy some of the interviews that revealed the "hideous men" (and a few women as well).

I am intrigued by reviewers who picked up a David Foster Wallace novel and expected to beat a crystal clear-cut confession out of it. Lamenting the lack of "a point" in just about any creation of this eccentric author is a bit lacking in ingenuity; it's like walking into a pub on the east end of London and griping about the lack of homely milkshakes.

Suggested by George Saunders (Harper's Bazaar Interview with George Saunders, June 2001).

About David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. "I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today," he once said, "of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it." He wanted to write "stuff about what it feels like to live. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live." Readers curled up in the nooks and clearings of his style: his comedy, his brilliance, his humaneness.His life was a map that ends at the wrong destination. Wallace was an A student through high school, he played football, he played tennis, he wrote a philosophy thesis and a novel before he graduated from Amherst, he went to writing school, published the novel, made a city of squalling, bruising, kneecapping editors and writers fall moony-eyed in love with him. He published a thousand-page novel, received the only award you get in the nation for being a genius, wrote essays providing the best feel anywhere of what it means to be alive in the contemporary world, accepted a special chair at California's Pomona College to teach writing, married, published another book and, last month [Sept. 2008], hanged himself at age 46.-excerpt from The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky in Rolling Stone Magazine October 30, 2008.Among Wallace's honors were a Whiting Writers Award (1987), a Lannan Literary Award (1996), a Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction (1997), a National Magazine Award (2001), three O. Henry Awards (1988, 1999, 2002), and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.More:http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw...

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