1999

BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN
By David Foster Wallace

273 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $24.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Calling Them Misogynists Would Be Too Kind
By MICHIKO KAKUTANIJUNE 1, 1999
BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Calling Them Misogynists Would Be Too Kind - The New York Times

One piece in ''Hideous Men'' reads like a parody of Nicholson Baker, providing a minutely detailed account of the emotions going through a 13-year-old boy's head as he dives into a swimming pool.