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Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil
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Episode 397: Nabokov, Merriam-Webster & Bad Documentaries
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vl...
Episode 396: MY 10th ANNIVERSARY EPISODE❣️ / C.K. Williams - Writers Writing Dying
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...
Episode 395: Lydia Davis - Priority (Again) & Answer Corner
"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 barel...
Episode 394: The Life of Northern Calloway (David from Sesame Street)
"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 beas...
Episode 393: Joshua Rivkin - In the Black (on Cy Twombly)
Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy.
Love, Robyn
LINKS:
Buy Joshua Rivkin's Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Tw...
Episode 392: Steve Zirnkilton - In the Criminal Justice System
"The people who have made me feel the worst were always my best friends." -Detective Olivia Benson
"I'll never sell 14 million like Hamme...
Episode 390: Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy
A - ABLE-MINDED
B - BICUSPID
C - CROSS-EXAMINATION
K - Keeping You Company
With love, Robyn
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Episode 389: Copy & Paste: The Cold Episode
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Episode 388: Encyclopedia Corner - Lighting & Lightning
"Lighting ranks as the most important factor in seeing."
"Writing letters helps bring friends closer together."
"Plans for lightning shou...
Episode 387: Letters of Note / E.B. White / My Voiceover
"I must decline, for secret reasons." ~E.B. White
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See Letters of Note on Instagram
Episode 386: Anne Carson - Short Talks
"A trotting animal can restore red hearts to red." - Anne Carson (Short Talk on My Task)
LINKS:
Buy Anne Carson's Short Talk...
Episode 385: Mary Ruefle & John Clare
"In the end I would rather wonder than know." -Mary Ruefle
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Episode 384: John D'Agata & Studio Update
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...
Episode 383: Franz Kafka & Katt Williams
"'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
"...
Episode 382: Catullus 85
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 C...
Episode 381: Emily Dickinson, Petrichor & Me
An After Dark Episode!
Tonight I read from Emily Dickinson's Final Harvest: https://bookshop.org/p/books/final-harvest-poems-emily-dicki...
Episode 380: "Part 1: Party" featuring words by Charles Simic & Melody Beattie
"Go inside a stone.
That would be my way.
Let somebody else become a dove."
-Charles Simic
Buy absolutely anythi...
Episode 379: Mike White - Levi's Letter from Rehab on "Enlightened" + RIP Charles Simic
"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, En...
Episode 378: Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (The Rhinoceros)
"Modern natural philosophers have found God in the folds of the skin of the rhinoceros." - Voltaire
"I found the saltiest, greasiest corn...
Episode 377: I'll Be Back!
Checking in after a long illness. Can't wait to start talking with you guys again!
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Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
"We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries." - Dire Straits
"I love turkey sandwiches." - Me
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Episode 375: Anne Carson - The Albertine Workout
"It is always tricky, the question whether to read an author’s work in light of his life or not." -Anne Carson
"If you can drink a beer,...
Episode 374: Daniil Kharms - The Things
"I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault,...
Episode 373: Patrizia Cavalli - My Poems Won't Change the World
“I think I want, but what is it that I want?
Do I want something? I don’t know." - Patrizia Cavalli
"Kids tend to think of my viol...
Episode 372: Mary Ruefle - On Beginnings
"You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that." - Mary Ruefle
"The End....
Episode 371: Mark Strand - The Mailman
"We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole." - Mark Strand
"Have you guys seen the new squeezable sauerkraut?!?" - Me
Episode 370: C.K. Williams & Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
"Such fun waking up though! Such fun too if you don't! Keep dying! Keep writing it down!" - C.K. Williams
"Message received." - Me
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Episode 369: The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery
"Jeff, roommate: Left my stuff all over the house; left the fridge a mess.
Mary, friend: Promised to make her a clock. Made it, but never gave...
Episode 368: Robinson Jeffers - The World's Wonders
"I have also seen doom." -Robinson Jeffers
"As you can see, I need to breathe." - Robyn O'Neil
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Episode 367: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (again)
"I think mostly about clothes, sex, food, and seasonal variations. I have done so much to be ordinary and made a record of this: first I was born, nex...
Episode 366: Elsa Gidlow - Of a Certain Friendship
"I have loved too terribly and too much
Ever to have any fear of love." - Elsa Gidlow
"Indoor plumbing is my favorite invention."...
Episode 365: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Rest
boketto - to stare vacantly without doing anything
friend - a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection
Episode 364: Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks (and a conversation with Damien Jurado!)
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” - Patricia Highsmith
"Honestly, same." - Me
L...
Episode 363: Chika Sagawa - Composition in Three Primary Colors
"The post office is a mile away." -Chika Sagawa
"Forgive yourself, forgive others, buy those refried beans." - Me
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Episode 362: Kevin Prufer - Black Woods (and Bill Callahan lyrics)
"Bury me in wood / And I will splinter / Bury me in stone / And I will quake / Bury me in water / And I will geyser / Bury me in fire / And I'm gonna...
Episode 361: Yosef Ibn Zabara - My Ex - Look at These People - The Physician
"Take pleasure today in the friend at your side; tomorrow he'll leave, and the joy will die." - Avraham Ibn Ezra
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Episode 359: The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, Edited by Eliot Weinberger
"I've listened to rain all my life. My hair's white now, and I still don't know night rain on a spring river." - Lu Yu
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Episode 358: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "A Starling"
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” -...
Episode 357: Mark Strand & Vladimir Nabokov
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vl...