| 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'sbook Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,modified to include info about the interview pieces, which info is painfullyabsent from the book's table. (Page count for each entry is in parentheses.)
| Table of Contents |
| A Radically Condensed History of PostindustrialLife | 0 (<1) |
| Death Is Not the End | 1(3) |
| Forever Overhead | 4(10) |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview #14 | 14(1) |
| Interview #15 | 15(1) |
| Interview#11 | 16 (2) |
| Interview#3 | 18(4) |
| Interview#30 | 22(<1) |
| Interview#31 | 23(4) |
| Interview#36 | 28(<1) |
| Yet Another Example of the Porousness of CertainBorders XI | 29 (1) |
| The Depressed Person | 31(27) |
| The Devil Is a Busy Man | 59(1) |
| Think | 61(>1) |
| Signifying Nothing | 63(6) |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview#40 (Flipperarm.) | 69(3) |
| Interview#42 (Men'sroom attendant.) | 73(4) |
| Interview#2("Warning sweetie: I've been known to reverse thrust.") | 77 (7) |
| Interview#48 (Chicken-sexingand bondage.) | 85(12) |
| Interview#51 ("Theneverything goes fine.") | 97(<1) |
| Interview#19 ("You'reso damned smart. So c'mere") | 98(<1) |
| Interview#46 (Gang-rapedw/ Jack Daniels bottle.) | 98(7) |
| Datum Centurio | 106(4) |
| Octet | 111(25) |
| PQ4.(Terminaldrug addicts sitting in the cold. Which one lived?) | |
| PQ6.(-X + Y PQ, it turns out.) | |
| PQ7. | |
| PQ6(a).(x,speechless.) | |
| PQ9.(You couldtry PQ9, but beware.) | |
| Adult World (I) | 137(18) |
| Adult World (II) | 156(5) |
| The Devil Is a Busy Man | 162(2) |
| Church Not Made with Hands | 165(14) |
| Yet Another Example of the Porousness of CertainBorders VI | 180(1) |
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| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview#59 | 181(10) |
| Interview#72 | 191(<1) |
| Interview#28 | 192(7) |
| Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko | 200(17) |
| On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, theAcclaimed New Young Off- BroadwayPlaywright's Father Begs a Boon ("I did despise my son.") | 218 (22) |
| Suicide as a Sort of Present | 241 (3) |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | |
| Interview#20 | 245(26) |
| Yet Another Example of the Porousness of CertainBorders XXIV ("My brother'smimetic face.") | 272(2) |
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