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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

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. There are no studies, not yet. So things are moving.