brief interviews with hideous men
david foster wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near . the series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women . these portraits of men at their most self justifying loquacious and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections .
twenty two stories tell of a frightened boy frozen on a diving board a depressed woman trying to find help and a group of men who try to rationalize their relationships with women .