On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
My first column was about David Foster Wallace, whose ‘This is Water’ commencement address at Kenyon College (2005) had become a touchstone ( see transcript here , and audio recording here ). OCD has a strong genetic component and was thought to be incurable. I was told, and believed, that I would be on this drug for life.
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