This is Water | This is Water |
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Not Yet Published (Due 14th April 2009 Little,Brown) Amazon Info - This is Water Publishers Weekly - Little, Brown Plans Wallace Book for Spring Hachette Book Group- This is Water Nonsuch Book - This is Water thoughts and a giveaway Reviews: Village Voice Blogs - This Is Water: David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Address, One Sentence at a Time Acoustic Phenomena - Is this Water? Christian Science Monitor - This is Water Mark Follman.com - This is David Foster Wallace NYT Sunday Book Review - Great and Terrible Truths. Newsday.com Bookends - This is Water Mother Jones - David Foster Wallace's Best Advice The Globe and Mail, Globe Books - This is your choice The Daily Iowan, Art Brief - Surely, they jest New York Observer - Life Lessons From a Depressed Person Two responses as a result of NYT piece Great and Terrible Truths above: Is the new news - DFW, still, Living Bipolar: Re-Thinking Bipolar Disorder - Commencement or Conclusion? A couple of versions of the speech: Marginalia.org Transcription Wall Street Journal adaptation: David Foster Wallace on Life and Work 16/3/09 - Look what arrived...      [Most pages look like this. Not much text, yet effectively paced.] I like it. It is pretty much as I expected. Text only, mostly a paragraph, or a line, per page. Carefully paginated for emphasis and nicely paced. And you know, it just works. I've read it three times already. I can see myself picking it up from time to time for a quick read. I actually think it would make a fine gift. Unsurpisingly, it is somewhat edited and cleaned up from the original speech and is slightly expanded (more like the speech itself) compared to the Wall Street Journal version. This isn't a bad thing. You can order it here. |