This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording cover art

This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording

By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: David Foster Wallace
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £2.99

Buy Now for £2.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. This is the audio recording of David Foster Wallace delivering that very address. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend.

Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every listen.

©2005 David Foster Wallace (P)2010 Hachette Consciousness & Thought Education Ethics & Morality Personal Development Personal Success Philosophy Witty

Listeners also enjoyed...

 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words cover art
Here Is New York cover art
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant cover art
The Power of Now cover art
The Book of Unveiling cover art
As a Man Thinketh cover art
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck cover art
The Truth About Us cover art
Out of Your Mind cover art
The Four Agreements cover art
Ego Is the Enemy cover art
Dear Sonali cover art
Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen cover art
Beyond Recovery cover art
The Book of Unknowing: From Enlightenment to Embodiment cover art
Ishmael cover art
All stars
Most relevant
This speech is strikingly objective. What it is not is condescending repetitive or cliché. Wallace does not strive to give you good advise but to simple remind you to breathe, when it is all too simple to forget how to. If you're a David Foster Wallace fan, this is undoubtedly a gem to keep.

Wallace's words are inspired and down to earth.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love David Foster Wallace but this speech is utter balls. I guess no one can be brilliant all the time

shocking rubbish from a truly great writer

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.