Here's How An 8-Year-Old David Foster Wallace Speech Suddenly Became A Viral Video Hit

Last week, in the midst of commencement season, small L.A. video production company The Glossary released a five-minute cinematic interpretation of David Foster Wallace's philosophically resonant 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College. Although the original speech, called "This is Water," made its rounds online via transcripts and audio recordings, only now -- 8 years after its delivery and 5 years after Wallace's death -- is it going viral. Excerpting half of the 22-minute speech, the film...