David Foster Wallace’s Legendary Commencement Speech 

LC sent this in. “Forgive me if this 23-minute recording is repetitive,” he wrote. “Perhaps you’ve posted about it before. I find it poignant.”

David Foster Wallace was a uniquely smart and inventive writer. Some of his novels are considered to be must reading for anyone seriously interested in contemporary fiction. He eventually killed himself. And that is a topic we could talk about for hours. But he was also practical and poetic, as you can see from this relatively short commencement address.

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