| This table of contents has minor notes to help me remember what each piece is about, particularly the interviews. If you have not read the book and/or do not want to spoil any stories, click here and use the other table of contents. |
This page is a table of contents for David Foster Wallace's book Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, modified to include info about the interview pieces, which info is painfully absent from the book's table. (Page count for each entry is in parentheses.)
| Table of Contents |
| A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life | 0 (<1) |
| Death Is Not the End | 1 (3) |
| Forever Overhead | 4 (10) |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview #14 ("Victory for the forces of democratic freedom!") | 14 (1) |
| Interview #15 (Dad's proclivity for rage; self-restraint.) | 15 (1) |
| Interview #11 ("You don't trust me not to leave, so I'm leaving.") | 16 (2) |
| Interview #3 ("You shitheel." "Well, whaddaya gonna do?") | 18 (4) |
| Interview #30 ("It's like she was pre-tested.") | 22 (<1) |
| Interview #31 (Smoothies, pigs. And stoners.) | 23 (4) |
| Interview #36 ("Who?") | 28 (<1) |
| Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders XI (blind dream) | 29 (1) |
| The Depressed Person | 31 (27) |
| The Devil Is a Busy Man ("$5 or $10 rather than FREE.") | 59 (1) |
| Think (Mid-tryst prayer.) | 61 (>1) |
| Signifying Nothing (Dad wiggled his dick in my face.) | 63 (6) |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview #40 (Flipper arm.) | 69 (3) |
| Interview #42 (Men's room attendant.) | 73 (4) |
| Interview #2 ("Warning sweetie: I've been known to reverse thrust.") | 77 (7) |
| Interview #48 (Chicken-sexing and bondage.) | 85 (12) |
| Interview #51 ("Then everything goes fine.") | 97 (<1) |
| Interview #19 ("You're so damned smart. So c'mere") | 98 (<1) |
| Interview #46 (Gang-raped w/ Jack Daniels bottle.) | 98 (7) |
| Datum Centurio | 106 (4) |
| Octet | 111 (25) |
| PQ4. (Terminal drug addicts sitting in the cold. Which one lived?) | |
| PQ6. (-X + Y PQ, it turns out.) | |
| PQ7. (Custody battle.) | |
| PQ6(a). (x, speechless.) | |
| PQ9. (You could try PQ9, but beware.) | |
| Adult World (I) | 137 (18) |
| Adult World (II) | 156 (5) |
| The Devil Is a Busy Man (Anonymous good deed.) | 162 (2) |
| Church Not Made with Hands (Poetry.) | 165 (14) |
| Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders VI | 180 (1) |
| ("Don't love you no more.") | |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview #59 ("The trouble with STOPPING TIME to jack off.") | 181 (10) |
| Interview #72 ("I love women! All women!") | 191 (<1) |
| Interview #28 (E & K: "They do make great moms.") | 192 (7) |
| Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko | 200 (17) |
| On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the
Acclaimed New Young Off- Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon ("I did despise my son.") |
218 (22) |
| Suicide as a Sort of Present (Mother-to-be & impossibly high standards.) | 241 (3) |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview #20 (Raped, not killed, hippy-chick.) | 245 (26) |
| Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain
Borders XXIV ("My brother's mimetic face.") |
272 (2) |
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