This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life -- David Foster Wallace, Hardcover

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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life -- David Foster Wallace, HardcoverIn this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous

and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief

-Scene-by-scene plot summaries

he unleashed something savage inside me

Then let two esteemed founders of long-form improvisational theatre

I ate something new

and much-needed encouragement for the days when feeding yourself feels harder than it should

one full of lessons for today as we confront a "sixth extinction

Until one day the driving stops for good

" --Lilliam Rivera

She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people

seeking to forge closer friendships

lonely and in need of a friend