Title: Brief Review of Hideous Book
Product review: Having read -- and disliked -- two of this collection's pieces in Esquire and The New Yorker, I should have avoided "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men." But I wanted to give David Foster Wallace and his vaunted dry humor one more chance. I found a couple of the briefest stories ("Forever Overhead," the first episode of the two-part "The Devil is a Busy Man") interesting and even laugh-provoking, but the remaining stories bored me. Like Jon Stewart's "Naked Pictures of Famous People," this book strives too hard and self-consciously to be funny. Wallace should buy a volume or two of Barry Hannah's work and study the master of the dryly hilarious short story.
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