![]() ![]() Sara Quinn (Julianne Nicholson of Law and Order: Criminal Intent), the film‘s protagonist, is a graduate student who conducts the interviews for her anthropological thesis. It was Wallace‘s intention for readers to focus on learning about each subject‘s idiosyncrasies, exposing just how vulnerable, alienated, and weird men can be. I actually found myself re-reading passages and pages more often than I had to for Infinite Jest. Overall, I found the book to be quite challenging purely on a technical-reading level. The stories themselves are a series of transcripts with questions deliberately omitted. I just finished reading David Foster Wallaces Brief Interviews With Hideous Men today and felt compelled to share a few thoughts. These actors play the hideous men or “subjects” of Wallace‘s intellect. FragMented: Representations of Masculinity in David Foster Wallaces Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Chuck Palahniuks Fight Club. The film stars a varied group of actors including seasoned veterans of stage and screen - Bobby Cannavale ( Third Watch, Mauritius), Timothy Hutton ( Leverage, Ordinary People), Michael Cerveris ( The Who‘s Tommy, Assassins), and Death Cab for Cutie‘s Ben Gibbard. ![]() ![]() Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, a collection of 23 short stories by David Foster Wallace, is now a feature film directed by The Office‘s John Krasinski and opening September 25th in select theaters. ![]()
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