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Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil
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Episode 400: Geri Jewell - I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond
If you grew up in the 70s and 80s like me, you certainly know Geri Jewell. If you don't know the full breadth of her career, you will for sure know "C...
Episode 399: The World Book Encyclopedia - The Letter "A"
Today, we head back to Encyclopedia Corner, exploring the letter "A". Also discussed: The Prinzhorn Collection, Jean Dubuffet, Hypergraphia, Emma Hauc...
Episode 398: Agnes Martin - On Beauty
"My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines." - Agnes Martin
"Oh really, bitch? I don't think so!" - My Body<...
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
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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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Episode 386: Anne Carson - Short Talks
"A trotting animal can restore red hearts to red." - Anne Carson (Short Talk on My Task)
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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
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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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