＂A host of talented narrators and actors-including television
actors John Krasinski and Christopher Meloni-deliver nuanced
performances of the late Wallace''s classic. But it''s the author
himself who steals the show: his gentle, almost dreamy voice
unlocks the elaborate syntax and releases the immense feeling
concealed by the comedy and labyrinthine sentences. While the
various narrators ably capture the essence of the text, Wallace''s
renditions of such stories as ＂Forever Overhead＂ and ＂D
內容簡介：
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.
關於作者：
David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and
raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis
player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and
English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first
novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English
thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of
Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at
Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was
published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson
College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and
published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief
Interviews with Hideous Men, and Oblivion and the essay
collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again and
Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur
Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers'' Award,
and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage
Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last
novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.
目錄：
A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
Death Is Not the End
Forever Overhead
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders XI
The Depressed Person
The Devil Is a Busy Man
Think
Signifying Nothing
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Datum Centurio
Octet
Adult World I
Adult World II
The Devil Is a Busy Man
Church Not Made with Hands
Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders VI
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko
On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New
Young Off-Broadway Playwright''s Father Begs a
Boon
Suicide as a Sort of Present
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders XXIV
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