I can’t believe he died. That’s how vivid his words seem. This commencement address, the only one David Foster Wallace ever wrote, was delivered to the graduating class at Kenyon College in ...

Adapted from a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. Mr. Wallace, 46, died last Friday, ... "What the hell is water?" ...

See The Short Film Made From David Foster Wallace’s Unforgettable “This Is Water” Speech. In 2005, author David Foster Wallace delivered the commencement speech for Kenyon College, a ...

How do you turn David Foster Wallace’s just-shy-of-4000-words Kenyon commencement speech into a saleable, hardbound book? Sentence by sentence, evidently. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, ...

Flashback: David Foster Wallace’s Water Closet of Wonders As a tribute to the late David Foster Wallace, Harper‘s Magazine, where the writer was a contributing editor, has made ...

Below we’ve gathered some of our favorite quotes from David Foster Wallace, including selections from his fiction, essays and This Is Water, the commencement address he delivered at Kenyon ...

Author David Foster Wallace in 1996, shortly after the publication of his bestselling novel “Infinite Jest.” By John Warner. UPDATED: August 5, 2023 at 3:20 PM CDT.

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