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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
 

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: Stories

by David Foster Wallace

Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews... (read more)

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Matthew G
  • Rated 4 stars

“Always brilliant, but occasionally too clever by half. The most glaring example for me was Octet, which became interminable once it degenerated into meta-on-meta-on-meta. Compared to his astonishingly precise A Radically Condensced History of Postindustrial Life, Octet is a complete failure. (I hated hated hated that one. Can you tell?) Still, for the most part in this collection, his stories stay focused, and when DFW's on (as he was for all the Brief Interviews, which are simply...”

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bencasnocha
  • Rated 2 stars

“Wallace is always entertaining. But I liked his other collections better than this one.”

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  • Rated 3.706667 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
  

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  • rilke0

    rilke0 said:

    “So far this is one of the best books I've read in awhile. I think DFW is a poet who pretends to write fiction.”

    posted Wednesday, February 20 2008
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