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David Foster Wallace delivered one of the most widely shared and admired graduation speeches of all time. It still rewards ...
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Speaking of water, I was reminded of one of the greatest, most profound graduation speeches I have ever heard. It was delivered by author/philosopher David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduates at ...
When we learn that “happiness can’t be taken by the world because it wasn’t given by the world,” we can laugh at the vanities ...
David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel, “The Pale King,” may be unfinished, but it is still 548 pages long. Fortunately for busy Wallace fans, some shorter bits of Wallaceana have been ...
In this short essay, Walter Metz uses a graduation speech by David Foster Wallace to analyze the water imagery in the new Gus Van Sant film, Promised Land.
A purple Cadillac, a car bomb, and a father’s stories point to a life well lived ...
Are lobsters even capable of shouting out, and more importantly, can lobsters feel the kind of pain that screaming would ...
When I wrote this on a sunny Evanston morning, the power-addled president of this country taunted the world with “Will I, won ...