This Is Water

In 2005 novelist David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) gave a graduation speech about living life with awareness and compassion. He committed suicide last year, but the speech has become an Internet classic. Now it's a book: think of it as The Last Lecture for intellectuals.

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