Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Author: David Foster Wallace

Narrator: John Krasinski, Cory Stoll, Joshua Ferris, Denis O'Hare, Will Forte, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, Josh Charles, Malcolm Goodwin, Christopher Meloni, Chris Messina, Max Minghella, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ben Shenkman, Joey Slotnick

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2009

Synopsis

In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women.
Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on October 27, 2010

ON HAVING HAD IT WITH DAVID FOSTER WALLACE FOR THE MOMENT Given that most of my goodread friends love DFW with immoderate, alarming gusto, this requires some kind of explanation. There’s a direct parallel between DFW and James Joyce. They both tended perpetually towards the encyclopaedic. They were ut......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 03, 2009

It's official: my heart is broken for David Foster Wallace. Anyone who thinks they don't like him is, I'm sorry, an ass. This shit is just not up for debate.......more

Goodreads review by Tom on December 22, 2020

David Foster Wallace is an excellent lister. He isn't always the greatest storyteller, but he is a truly excellent lister. Things. Sensations. Details. Tics. He notices and lists them all. He is like Emerson's invisible eyeball, turning outward to reveal more about what is inside, listing a thousand......more

Goodreads review by Emily on October 23, 2021

This is a hard book for me to rate and review. I could listen to David Foster Wallace talk all day but his writing is just hard. It requires work, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Although short and relatively simple I adored the first short story ‘A radically condensed history of postindustrial......more

Goodreads review by Jason on April 04, 2014

I sold my first car just a little over a year ago. It was sort of a bittersweet thing for me because even though that rustbox was old and broken there was a comfortable familiarity there. I loved it in spite of itself. I venture to guess that if I were ever to get back into the driver’s seat (theore......more

Quotes

"A host of talented narrators and actors-including television actors John Krasinski and Christopher Meloni-deliver nuanced performances of the late Wallace's classic. But it's the author himself who steals the show: his gentle, almost dreamy voice unlocks the elaborate syntax and releases the immense feeling concealed by the comedy and labyrinthine sentences. While the various narrators ably capture the essence of the text, Wallace's renditions of such stories as "Forever Overhead" and "Death Is Not the End" are transcendent. Essential listening for Wallace fans and a fine introduction for newcomers."—Publishers Weekly, Publishers Weekly

The name of this collection of stories is slightly misleading, given the talent and likability of the cast of narrators who bring the late Wallace's work to life. Each of the performers, including actors John Krasinski, Will Forte, Malcolm Goodwin, and Bobby Cannavale, delivers a powerful reading that is as imaginative as the collection itself.... Krasinski, who directed the film adaptation of the book, is especially fine, reading with a stern, intellectual edge that is at once witty and unabashed. As a whole, each narrator complements the unique work he delivers.—Publishers Weekly

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