Though it has only begun to receive serious critical attention, 1 its brazen solicitation of empathy for all kinds of mental, physical, and emotional disfigurements through likewise discomforting generic disfigurements represents a powerful development of themes and goals for fiction that David Foster Wallace had been articulating for several years, not only in Infinite Jest but also in his 1993 interview with Larry McCaffery and essay on television (“E Unibus Pluram: Television and U. Comprising 23 separate pieces and 37 or so different voices, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men aggressively explores the warped workings of relationships-largely male-female and primarily their linguistic workings-by creating personae that shock and disgust us with admissions of bad behavior, then add offense by demanding our identification and understanding.
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