This Is Water
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an essay by David Foster Wallace. The text originates from a commencement speech Wallace gave at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005. The essay was published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 and in 2009 its format was stretched by Little, Brown and Company to fill 138 pages for a book publication. A transcript of the speech circulated online as early as June 2005.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This Is Water First edition hardcover AuthorDavid Foster Wallace Cover artistMario J. Pulice LanguageEnglish GenreNon-fiction PublisherLittle, Brown and Company Publication dateApril 14, 2009 Publication placeU.S. Media typeHardback Pages137 ISBN978-0-316-06822-2 This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an essay by David Foster Wallace. The text originates from a commencement speech Wallace gave at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005. The essay was published in The Best American…
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