The Graduation Commencement Speech You Wish You Got: DFW’s Famous Talk Set To Video

By Brandon Gorrell, May 8th 2013

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Here’s David Foster Wallace’s still-relevant 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, now with added oomph. Listen up, recent grads! Thought Catalog Logo Mark

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