The Wall Street Journal has printed the speech David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College’s commencement in 2005. Widely circulated in a transcribed form, this version has cleared up previously ...

But historically, one speech repeatedly makes various "Best Commencement Speeches" lists: one from late novelist David Foster Wallace, given at Kenyon College in 2005.

in 2005, novelist David Foster Wallace delivered what's arguably the best commencement speech ever. Five years after his death, a video of the address has gone viral. Watch the clip.

Koehn's gold standard is David Foster Wallace's offering at the 2005 graduation of Kenyon College. He kicks off the speech with maybe one of the most cliched of all cliches: a didactic parable. But ...

David Foster Wallace delivered one of the most widely shared and admired graduation speeches of all time. It still rewards ...

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace delivered the commencement speech for Kenyon College, a stirring oratory that went on to be published as a short book. Now, it’s been adapted into a 9-minute ...

How do you turn David Foster Wallace’s just-shy-of-4000-words Kenyon commencement speech into a saleable, hardbound book? Sentence by sentence, evidently. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, ...

Not many commencement speeches survive the day they’re given. Even fewer are active well beyond the lifetime of their author. The speech that the writer David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon ...