Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of twenty-three short stories by David Foster Wallace. It is also the title of four of the stories in the collection. The list of stories is as follows:
- 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)
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.
John Krasinski will adapt and direct a film version for release in 2007.
