DFW

David Foster Wallace was born on this day in 1962.  A highly respected author, he suffered from depression and committed suicide in 2008.

His best known work is the novel Infinite Jest.  But that's over a thousand pages.  Let's try something shorter to remember him by.

How about this--his commencement speech at Kenyon in 2005, "This Is Water."  I don't know that much about Wallace, but it gives a good idea of how he thought.  It was later stretched out and published as an essay.