Short Interviews with Scum is as unpredictable, paradoxical, and complex a book as Infinite Jest. A book written contrary to all rules and canons, pushing the boundaries of the possibilities of fiction. This is a combination of black humor, piercing confessionality with absurdity, strangeness and darkness. Daring to look where the grotesque and the everyday intertwine into a single whole, these unusual, shocking and revealing texts immerse the reader in a world that is at once recognizable and completely alien, allowing us to look at the surrounding reality from a new, unexpected angle, and again confirming that David Foster Wallace was one of the most significant American writers of his time. Contains obscene language.