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  1. What David Foster Wallace Might Say About the IRS Scandal

    What David Foster Wallace Might Say About the IRS Scandal

    Time Magazine May 19 15:25PM UTC

  2. David Foster Wallace Tells Us About Freedom

    What do you get when you get a college diploma? To hear David Foster Wallace tell it, you get a muscle that will help you forever after — in shopping lines, overcrowded parking lots, in traffic jams. This muscle, he says, frees you when the world gets painfully dull.

    NPR May 21 14:31PM UTC

  3. What David Foster Wallace Can Teach You About Traffic

    David Foster Wallace was a novelist and writer with an interesting view on life. He wanted all of us to think not about how we get up, get in a car, go to work, get in a car, and go to sleep again. He wanted us to really consider everything that happens in between, and how we are all small fish in a big pond. Originally excerpted from a commencement address he gave at Kenyon College three years ...

    Jalopnik May 19 18:52PM UTC

  4. Tuesday Afternoon Diversion: 'This Is Water' By David Foster Wallace

    "The fact is, in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance," David Foster Wallace told a class of graduates at Kenyon College in 2005. [ more › ]

    Chicagoist May 21 20:49PM UTC

  5. Commencement speaker to remember: David Foster Wallace

    David Foster Wallace gave this commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005. It's been read, shared, and loved ever since.

    The Christian Science Monitor May 9 23:03PM UTC

  6. David Foster Wallace's Legendary Graduation Speech Is Now An Awesome Short Film

    Novelist David Foster Wallace gave a speech called "This Is Water" to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. "This Is Water" is a brilliant speech and the short film by The Glossary brings it to life in a wonderful way. It's worth 10 minutes of your time today.

    Business Insider May 8 21:52PM UTC

  7. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Death

    Shortly after my post earlier this spring about the dubious idea of π day, I started reading David Foster Wallace’s Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. It was the last book he published before his suicide. He called it a booklet. It was part of a series of what were intended as short accounts of Great Discoveries, but it was 319 pages long. That is short for Wallace, I guess. His ...

    Discover May 1 19:56PM UTC

  8. 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 stirring oratory that went on to be published as a short book. Now, it’s been adapted into a 9-minute film. If you haven’t yet read David Foster Wallace’s singularly life-affirming 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, you’ve been missing out on a true gem. On the bright side, you’re also in for a ...

    Fast Company Magazine May 9 19:20PM UTC

  9. Profound David Foster Wallace Speech Revived in Visual Work

    In 2005, writer David Foster Wallace stood before the graduates of Kenyon College and delivered a memorable and impactful commencement address The speech, later turned into a book titled This Is Water , has become a classic to many, up there with Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford address. Videogram company The Glossary has revived Wallace's words with a video visualizing the concepts described by the ...

    Mashable May 10 16:42PM UTC

  10. Someone Made David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" Speech Into a Short Film

    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 for his massive fiction pieces, such as the posthumously-released The Pale King , or the massive, weighty tome Infinite Jest , I'm personally quite the fan of his non-fiction—his essays, his ...

    Tucson Weekly May 8 22:13PM UTC