THIS IS WATER. KENYON ADDRESS 2005

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon Co llege. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comforta ble, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured pie ce of wri...[Read more]