All of which makes it even more painful to say that, as a film, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is a disaster. The resulting film has clearly been made with a deep reverence for Wallace, who was surely the most gifted writer of his generation, and who took his own life one year ago this month, at age 46. In the years since, as he rose to fame in The Office, he has been developing the stories as a feature, which he would write and direct. The 29-year-old actor John Krasinski reports that participating in a staged reading of Wallace’s story while a Brown University student inspired him to pursue acting as a profession. In a dizzying whirl of language, Wallace’s fictional men explain how they feel about the women they’ve loved or, more often than not, have failed to love. “Everything I write ends up being about loneliness,” said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show “Bookworm.” In that conversation, Wallace was trying to get at the core of his Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a four-part short story he wrote as a series of monologues, which, in turn, are presented as a transcription of interviews that an unnamed woman conducted with dozens of men.
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