Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

David Foster Wallace · first published 1999 · ISBN 9780316925419

A formally experimental collection featuring fragmented stories presented as transcripts, nested narratives, and various fragmentary forms. The work circles around themes of desire, alienation, and the near-impossibility of genuine connection through recurring male characters being interviewed by an unseen female questioner, creating a portrait of contemporary male consciousness at once comic and deeply disturbing.