Tuesday, August 11, 2009

"This Is Water. This Is Water."

I'm reading a collection of short essays edited by Ira Glass, the dude who does This American Life from Public Radio International (NPR has a competitor - who knew?). I'm just about to finish David Foster Wallace's "Host," which is about talk radio and not alien pod people, and I'm sort of obsessed with his writing. I've never read any DFW before this, and his footnote-y style is so up my alley (that's a weird idiom -- SEE?!?!?!!) that I've been scouring for more. After his suicide last year, EW pointed out some of his greatest hits, one of which is a commencement speech he gave at Kenyon College in 2005. It absolutely ranks with Conan's class day speech from 2000.

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