Further Reading
- Abramovich, Alex. “Fear and Loathing.” The Village Voice 44, no. 23 (15 June 1999): 154-55. (Deems Brief Interviews with Hideous Men a “tormented, heroic book.”)
- Bruni, Frank. "The Grunge American Novel." New York Times, (24 March 1996): 476-79. (Examines the release of Infinite Jest, Wallace's personality, and the publicity surrounding the novel.)
- Burkman, Greg. “‘Hideous Men’: The Title of This Sorry Collection Really Does Say It All.” The Seattle Times (20 June 1999). (Derides the “disagreeable subject matter” and the “endless obsessive discourse” of the characters in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.)
- Costello, Mark. "Fighting to Write: A Short Reminiscence of D. F. Wallace." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13, No. 2 (Summer 1993): 235-36. (A brief remembrance by Mark Costello of the time he spent living with David Foster Wallace and collaborating on Signifying Rappers.)
- Goodheart, Adam. “Phrase Your Answer in the Form of a Question.” New York Times Book Review (20 June 1999). (Contends that Brief Interviews with Hideous Men seems possessed “by a vandalizing spirit, one that exults in tearing up, stripping down and breaking apart everything it can get its hands on.”)
- Harsanyi, David. “‘Hideous Men’ Is Attractive Short-Story Collection.” The Associated Press (9 August 1999). (Laudatory assessment of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.)
- Lezard, Nicholas. “Digging for Story Bones.” The Guardian (19 February 2000). (Debates the question of whether Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a masterpiece or a collection of crafty, self-conscious stories.)
- Rother, James. "Reading and Riding the Post-Scientific Wave: The Shorter Fiction of David Foster Wallace." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13, No. 2 (Summer 1993): 216-34. (An in-depth examination of Wallace's Girl with Curious Hair and his story "Order and Flux in Northampton.")
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