And it was really nothing more complicated or noble than that. And that my interest in her was due almost entirely to the fact that yes, she was pretty.

Look, I'll just bite the political bullet and confess that I classified her as a strictly one-night objective.

And she was straight out of Central casting: the sandals, flamboyantly long hair, financial support from parents she reviled, and some professed membership in an apostrophe-heavy Eastern religion that I defy anyone to pronounce correctly. And she was what one might call a granola cruncher. I'm aware of how all this sounds and can well imagine the judgments you're forming, but if I'm really to explain this to you then I have no choice but to be. Julianne Nicholson plays Sara Quinn, the interviewer unnamed in the stories. John Krasinski adapted and directed a film version on the 'Brief Interviews' stories that was released in 2009. The adaptation used four of the interviews and one short story and contained new music by the Grubby Mitts.Ģ1 of the interviews and stories were adapted and directed by David McGuff for Yellow Lab Productions entitled 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.' The production ran three nights, August 28–30, 2014, at the Hill Country Arts Foundation's Point Theater on the Elizabeth Huth Coates indoor stage. The production used a variety of multimedia techniques such as projection of the letter 'Q' on a backdrop that disrupted the monologues and a system of ear-pieces and auto-cues to convey the script to the actors on stage.

In August 2012 British artists Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy presented a stage adaptation of the book at the ICA, London, which later toured to Arnolfini, Bristol.

McCullough directed the premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2000. Twelve of the 'Interviews' were adapted into a stage play (Hideous Men) by Dylan McCullough in 2000, marking the first theatrical adaptation of any of Wallace's works. In 1997 Wallace was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by editors of The Paris Review for 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6', which had appeared in the magazine and appears as 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #20' in the collection. The interviewer's questions are omitted from the transcripts, rendered merely as 'Q.' These stories and the rest of the collection are characterized by dark dry humor, alienation, and unconventional sexuality. Four of the stories are entitled 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men' and are presented as transcripts of interviews with male subjects. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of 23 short stories by American writer David Foster Wallace.

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