![]() ![]() ![]() I read the book fervently and with a scrupulous eye, paying close attention to the nuances of thought, the paradoxes of desire, the calculating ways weakness is used as bait to seduce, the way some men are confident and conniving and yet also riddled by self-doubt and lack of self-knowledge. As a woman who came of age alongside these men, who has a brother, a father, a lover, and friends, I was intrigued. Secrets of those bearing a Y chromosome would be revealed, he promised David Foster Wallace had explored the shadows of the psyche of his generation and had rendered them on the page in all of their dark, desperate beauty. “It will help you understand the way men think!” he exclaimed. My boyfriend insisted I read Brief Interviews with Hideous Men when we started dating. ![]()
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