Kelly choses the pod's first poem, featuring time and space travel, existential dread, a market in Rome, and a mole-colored hill in upstate New York. Phoebe approves.

Phoebe selects DFW's famous commencement speech, "This is Water" for episode two. Kelly's also a fan, though he loves Wallace's essays best of all. Click here for full text of the speech.

Meet Kelly Daniels and Phoebe Fuller, your hosts for a literary pub talk inspired by George Orwell's favorite public-house: The Moon Under Water. "The Moon Under Water," by George Orwell: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-moon-under-water/