Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

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

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 agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque.

Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Wallace delights in left field observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation.