Author John Edgar Wideman will self-publish his new short story collection, "Brief: Stories for the Palm of the Mind".
"Why do people like stories?" said the author John Edgar Wideman, who unveiled his collection "Briefs" at WordTheatre last year.
A movie of the younger novelist's short story collection Brief Interviews premiered at Sundance in 2009.
This reversal of Freud's famous question drives John Krasinski's screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace's 1999 short-story collection "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" into a blind alley.
Mr. Fountain, whose only previous book was the short-story collection "Brief Encounters With Che Guevara," sets up this Thanksgiving game as an artfully detailed microcosm of America in general, and George W. Bush's Texas in particular, during the Iraq war.
Many of your stories in your recent collection, "Brief Encounter with the Enemy," combine a sense of bleakness with a kind of mordant humor, and that's the case here, too.
Of course, what partly redeems a writer is his gift for self-exposure, and Wallace managed to turn his sexual boastfulness and self-doubt into interesting fiction: the short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
_Many of your stories in your recent collection, "Brief Encounter with the Enemy," combine a sense of bleakness with a kind of mordant humor, and that's the case here, too.
Back in 1988 he left his job as a property lawyer in Dallas, Texas, to write at his kitchen table; his first book, the acclaimed short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, was not published until 18 years later, in 2006.
After all, back in 2006 when he began assembling an adaptation of David Foster Wallace's short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, the project would surely have been taken as bold and perhaps slightly hubristic – but nothing more than a harmless curio either way.
