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 ). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same.
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