Marginalia received a DMCA takedown notice for their original copy of the speech: http://www.marginalia.org/log/archives/2009/05/so-very-sorry.html http://www.

Marginalia received a DMCA takedown notice for their original copy of the speech: http://www.marginalia.org/log/archives/2009/05/so-very-sorry.html http://www.marginalia.org/log/archives/2009/05/so-very-sorry... But in the comments on their apology page at the link above, there's a reference to a book in which the address was published with Wallace's permission, as well an interesting note about an edit that Wallace made to the speech before publishing it: An essay on April 26 about David Foster Wallace’s commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005, which has now appeared in book form as "This Is Water," misstated the speech’s publishing history. It was included in the collection "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006"; it is not the case that Wallace, who died in September, "never published" the address. The essay may also have left the incorrect impression that both of the following sentences in the speech were omitted from the text of "This Is Water": "It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master." In fact, only the second sentence was left out.