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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

December 6, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A book that certainly delivers upon the promise of its title. I remember a few years ago when Adelle Waldman’s The Affairs of Nathaniel P. came out and we were meant to take it as a savage takedown of fuckboi culture, and then when I read it, not only did I not think that Nate was all that bad, I didn’t see the book as a takedown so much as reading the shift in the educated, white, Liberal masculinity in urban spaces. This book is most definitely […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:673 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace ·
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Not David Foster Wallace’s best, but that still means it’s better than most.

February 18, 2016 by Doctor Douche Leave a Comment

I’ll start with a preamble, I really like David Foster Wallace’s work, and Infinite Jest might just be my all-time favorite book. I love post-modern writing, not everyone’s preferred cup of tea I know, but give me a fragmented non-linear narrative and I will gleefully jump in. So this is almost hand crafted for me, and yet I am forced to admit that I didn’t care for it all that much. The structure of the book is a collection of non-related short stories, inter-cut by […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace

Doctor Douche's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace ·
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