In 2005, David Foster Wallace told the following story to the graduating class at Kenyon College. Wallace shared with the ...
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, Delivered on a ...
University of Arizona alumnus and heralded as the “Voice of a Generation” by far too many people to count, David Foster Wallace was one hell of a writer — to put it mildly. And while he’s well known ...