ME READING STUFF

ME READING STUFF

Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil

Episodes

June 23, 2025 22 mins

Dear You,

We last spoke in January and I've missed you; I've missed this. A lot has happened. A lot has not. Let's pick back up where we left off, but let's make it better and more loving this time. Let's not let the hoards of negatives overshadow the rest — the ever-present glimmerings of light. I simply can't anymore. I woke up different after that night. I even had pink cheeks for the first time in ages, accordin...

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"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living thing is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis

"I barely know what a uterus is for God's sake." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" HERE.

Become a Subscriber on My Substack!

Become a Paid Subscriber and get a drawing!

My Instagram

My Website

My Youtube


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"Help! I'm David from Sesame Street, and they're trying to kill me!" - Northern Calloway

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." - Zora Neale Hurston
LINKS:

The Wikipedia article on Northern Calloway

My Substack

Damien Jurado's record label - Maraqopa

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Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy.
Love, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy Joshua Rivkin's Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly

Here is my SUBSTACK!

Here is my website.

The Cy Twombly Gallery

Robert Rauschenberg

Jasper Johns

Henry Darger




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"The people who have made me feel the worst were always my best friends." -Detective Olivia Benson

"I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show." - Ice-T

LINKS:

Get your drawing! Subscribe to my Substack

Watch the Driver 23 / Atlas Moth Trailer

Watch the Fitzcarraldo Trailer

The NBC article on Steve Zirnkilton

Listen to the Steve Zirnkilton Law...

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November 12, 2024 1 min

Dear Boss, 
I am sick.
Love, Robyn

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November 5, 2024 14 mins

A - ABLE-MINDED
B - BICUSPID
C - CROSS-EXAMINATION
 
K - Keeping You Company

With love, Robyn

LINKS:

Well, I've never linked to Amazon for books, but that seems to be the only place I see Leonard Cohen's Book of Mercy, so head over there to buy it! There's also a set of several of his books on there that look really great, so maybe do that!

My Subtack

MY Shop

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LINKS:

My Substack

Buy my book HERE.

Watch American Movie HERE

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"Lighting ranks as the most important factor in seeing."
"Writing letters helps bring friends closer together."
"Plans for lightning should provide the greatest possible light needed for any task."
"Be sure than every statement you make is correct."
"A bolt of lightning can kill a person or start a forest fire."

-All quotes from 1964's World Book Encyclopedia - "L"

LINKS

My Substack

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"I must decline, for secret reasons." ~E.B. White

LINKS:

My Substack

See Letters of Note on Instagram

ME READING STUFF shirts at the bottom of THIS page.

California Scrub Jay

Stellar's Jay



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October 8, 2024 19 mins

"A trotting animal can restore red hearts to red." - Anne Carson (Short Talk on My Task)

LINKS:

Buy Anne Carson's Short Talks

Listen to Anne Carson's reading on "Shade"
(it's at the 19 minute mark, but you should listen to the entire thing)

Listen to me reading her writing on Shade from years ago.

Buy my Book on my website.

And if you're a pickle guy, like me, here are BRITT'S ...

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October 1, 2024 19 mins
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September 24, 2024 30 mins

D'Agata writes in the introduction to The Making of the American Essay: "The world provides non-fiction, and humans provide the rest." My own work has been dealing endlessly with the problems humans incessantly seem to provide. In desperation, I now pray that for the rest of my days, my eyes can shift their focus to the innumerable glories & ongoing wisdom humans also deliver.

LINKS:

My new Substack!
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September 6, 2024 31 mins

"'I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it." - Werner Herzog 

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing." - Dale Carnegie 

"People rarely have fun in what they're doing unless they succeed." - Me

"….ENJOY your mothafuckin' YOUTH....

while you GOT IT.


Whatever the fuck you trynna do in yo DREAMS and shit…...

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August 31, 2024 23 mins

Tonight, I give you a reading from New Directions' Love Poems of Catullus 
and a reiteration of my preference for the CH Sissen translation of Catullus 85.

Art event or not, put it all on a Carr's Table Water Cracker.

And if you have an interest in words, take 2 minutes to try this podcast out: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.

Thank you guys for listening, loving, hating. Always.
 
xo, Roby...

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An After Dark Episode! 

Tonight I read from Emily Dickinson's Final Harvest: https://bookshop.org/p/books/final-harvest-poems-emily-dickinson/110106?ean=9780316184151

I explain how this book by Alex Soojung Kim Pang both solved my life & ignited a nervous breakdown the size of Pangaea: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alex-soojung-kim-pang/rest/9781541617162/?lens=basic-books

Other things: ...

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"Go inside a stone.

That would be my way.

Let somebody else become a dove."

-Charles Simic

Buy absolutely anything by Charles Simic.

Buy "The Language of Letting Go" Daily Meditations by Melody Beattie.

And thank you for being with me today. I've missed you guys. 

Love, Robyn

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"We're animals, Amy. And some animals like to party. For me, God is a beer on the beach. Maybe that's fucked up, but at least it's honest." - Levi, Enlightened

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships." - Charles Simic

"Today wasn't anything spectacular and that's what I loved about it." Me, January 2, 2023

LINKS:

Watch "Enlightened" on HBO HER...

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"Modern natural philosophers have found God in the folds of the skin of the rhinoceros." - Voltaire

"I found the saltiest, greasiest corn chip at the bottom of this Juanita's bag this morning. It totally blew my mind." - Me

LINKS:

Buy the book here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/

See what you think about these Daniel Ladinsky "HAFIZ" books: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/20...

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January 3, 2023 9 mins

Checking in after a long illness. Can't wait to start talking with you guys again!

LINKS:

Send your questions/comments/concerns to: info@robynoneil.com

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

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