David Foster Wallace: This is Water

DFW was a graduate student in philosophy for a time, even after he was a published writer. Reading this or watching the video about what is essentially his personal philosophy really enriches the reader's understanding of his prior work, including Infinite Jest.

And, of course, it also makes his eventual suicide even more tragic.

if you are a DFW fan, this is gem. I recall reading IJ in 1997--absolutely like nothing i had ever read, and not just because it was a novel with footnotes and some of those footnotes had footnotes. Extraordinary work of art. Realizing that no more is to come from DFW is deeply sad.