ME READING STUFF

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With love, RobynLINKS:The De Palma trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97XoMjwoZ5wIndiebound for buying absolute any of the books I mention, always: https://www.indiebound.org/Cowboy Tommy // Cowboy Teddy Bear // Electric Fireplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSqVnHN3q9E

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Episode 1: Hello from Robyn and Ricci - An AFTER DARK! episode of ME READING STUFF

"See God, it ain't me.They 'bout to start a world war,I'm just tryna practice peace." - Leikeli47"How the hell you walk outta Heaven?" - Leikeli 47"LEARN A TRADE" - Me"I. CHOOSE. LIFE!" - Ricci OprahTo anyone reading, I've missed you....

Episode 381: Goodbye.

“There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said to me, “in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is , a novelist whom you will read in time to come, claims that there is no remedy...

Episode 380: Alfonsina Storni - The She-Wolf

"I am like the she-wolf. I travel alone and I laugh at the flock." - Alfonsina Storni"My biggest thrill this week was seeing that basket full of mini chips in the salon window." - MeLINKS:Buy Alfonsina Storni's Selected Poems HERE.Check...

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, Enlightened "Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while...

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 chip at the bottom of this Juanita's bag this morning. It totally blew my mind." - MeLINKS:Buy the...

Episode 377: I'll Be Back!

Checking in after a long illness. Can't wait to start talking with you guys again! LINKS:Send your questions/comments/concerns to: [email protected] website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

"We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries." - Dire Straits "I love turkey sandwiches." - MeLINKS:Check out the Dire Straits video for "Money For Nothing" HERE!See Damien Jurado's website for tickets to his upcoming 25th anniversary show.My #1...

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, you can smell patchouli." - MeLINKS:Check out "The Albertine Workout" by Anne Carson HERE...

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, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was...

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 violence as funny." - MeLINKS:Buy Patrizia Cavalli's "My Poems Won't Change the World" HERE.Check...

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." - Me______________________________________________LINKS:Buy Madness, Rack, and Honey at WAVE BOOKS.Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or...

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?!?" - MeLINKS:Purchase Mark Strand's "Selected Poems" HERE.Check out my Artforum review!Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt...

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." - MeLINKS:Buy "Writers Writing Dying" by C.K. Williams HERE.Buy "Rest" by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang HERE.Sign up for my newsletter...

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 it to her." -Workaholics Anonymous"Monica, Starbucks boss: Pretended I got a "gig" in Hollywood...

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'NeilLINKS:Buy Robinson Jeffers' Selected Poems Hit up my website www.robynoneil.com

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, next I was a child, then I learned things and did things...

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." - MeLINKS:Buy Elsa Gidlow books HERE! Poem-a-Daywww.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram

Episode 365: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Rest

boketto - to stare vacantly without doing anythingfriend - a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affectionperfectionist - a person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection LINKS:Buy Rest : Why You...

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 LINKS:Buy Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and NotebooksInfo on my show AMERICAN ANIMALSOnline Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALSCatalogue for AMERICAN...

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." - MeLINKS:Buy The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593230015Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/overview/Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://www.inglettgallery.com/viewing-room/42-robyn-o-neil-american-animals/Catalogue...

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 phoenix" -...

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 EzraLINKS:Buy "The Dream of the Poem" here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poemInfo on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/overview/Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS:...

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 YuLINKS:More on this book and where to purchase it here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-new-directions-anthology-of-classical-chinese-poetry/?source=searchMy upcoming show at Susan Inglett...

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.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"Be my coworker. I'd love a bag." - MeLINKS:Check out my...

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." - Vladimir Nabokov"If every head of state and every government official spent an hour...

Episode 356: Choi Seungja - Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me

"That I am alive is no more than an endless rumor." - Choi Seungja"You don't want an ombre hairstyle on your teeth." - Mep.s. I have an ombre hairstyle on my teethLINKS:More on Choi Seungja and "Phone Bells Keep Ringing...

Episode 355: Robert Creeley - A Day Book

"For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes." - Robert Creeley "I will not use my mid-stream urine; I will go to the drug store." - MeLINKS:Robert Creeley's "A Day Book:...

Episode 354: Kassia St. Clair - Acid Yellow

"Pueblo, Concrete, Maniac" - MeLINKS:Buy The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552503/the-secret-lives-of-color-by-kassia-st-clair/Purchase the new 10" single "Take Your Time" by Damien Jurado here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.com/product/take-your-time-limited-edition-10-singleMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMy website: www.robynoneil.com

Episode 353: Jameson O'Hara Laurens - Spell for a Drowning Man

"Dear Everyone, Let me disappoint you." - Sort of Jameson O'Hara Laurents, sort of me. LINKS:Buy Medaeum by James O'Hara Laurens here: https://henrymiller.org/2016/11/01/announcing-the-publication-of-medaeum-by-jameson-ohara-laurens/Listen to "Once Upon a Time at Bennington College": http://www.lilianolik.com/once-upon-a-time-at-bennington-collegeWarm your mug: https://www.mrcoffee.com/accessories/mug-warmers/mr.coffee-mug-warmer/SAP_MWBLKPDQRB.htmlHop Your John: https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/hoppin_john/Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten...

Episode 352: Graham Burnam - The Thing That Got My Fun

"I like ancient Chinese poetry." - Graham Burnam "I'd like to publish a Graham Burnam book of poetry." - Me LINKS:D.W. Burnam's work: https://www.instagram.com/d.w._burnam/Dawn Cerny's work: https://www.instagram.com/cerny_studio/Everyman's Pocket LIbrary's Solitude: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400044238Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https://inman-gallery.square.site/product/robyn-o-neil-yong-kiang-hotel-lion-t-shirt/304?cs=true&cst=customSusan Inglett...

Episode 351: Marlene Dietrich - Daily Rituals

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting." - Marlene Dietrich "If there is a supreme being, he's crazy." - Marlene Dietrich LINKS:Buy Mason Currey's "Daily Rituals: Women at Work" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604080/daily-rituals-women-at-work-by-mason-currey/9781524732950?ref=PRHB7BD76FBDB&aid=14813&linkid=PRHB7BD76FBDBBuy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https://inman-gallery.square.site/product/robyn-o-neil-yong-kiang-hotel-lion-t-shirt/304?cs=true&cst=customSusan Inglett Gallery:...

Episode 350: David Markson - This is Not a Novel

“Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.” - David Markson"I didn't breathe well today. You could hear me breathing too much." - MeLINKS:Buy "This is Not a Novel" at your local independent bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781619027145Buy...

Episode 349: Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco - Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (Selected & Translated by Janet Hendrickson)

"What I've aimed for as a translator is transparency, but in pieces, like high small windows in a tall room that let in only moving fragments of the picture of the sky." - Janet Hendrickson"Uhhhhh Sebastián, lions ARE cool." -...

Episode 348: Wislawa Szymborska - Nonreading

"Perhaps two in a thousand people like poetry." - Wislawa Szymborska “There’s a lot to think about isn’t there?” -Mr Rogers LINKS:Buy Wislawa Szymborska's "Here" here: https://bookshop.org/books/here-9780547592091/9780547592091Buy "The Every" by Dave Eggers with my drawings on the cover here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-every-by-dave-eggers-robyn-oneil-coverBuy...

Episode 347: Charles Simic - Dime-Store Alchemy

“He who cannot howl will not find his pack.” - Charles Simic "...unusual feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment, unexpected and more abiding than usual." - Joseph Cornell LINKS:Buy Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy here: https://www.nyrb.com/products/dime-store-alchemy-1?variant=1094929469Order my 2021 Headstone Greeting Cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickersMe...

Episode 346: Anna Akhmatova - Seventh Book

"If you only knew from what rubbish Poetry grows, knowing no shame." - Anna Akhmatova "You don't need friends everybody. Just have fun with yourself." - Me LINKS:Buy The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780939010271Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickersBuy...

Episode 345: Melody Thomas Scott - Always Young and Restless

She stabbed Clint Eastwood. She can make one tear run down her right cheek on command. I made a chef salad and don't take care of myself well anymore. LINKS:Buy "Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America's #1...

Episode 344: A.L. Snijders - Night Train (translated by Lydia Davis)

"Everything has its story." - A.L. Snijders"I'm a soap opera scholar." - MeLINKS:Buy Night Train by A.L. Snijders here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/night-train/Register for my lecture here: https://finearts.wsu.edu/event/robyn-oneil-virtual-artist-talk/Visit my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopSupport The Trevor Project by buying ME READING STUFF shirts here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-sMore...

Episode 343: Werner Herzog - Conquest of the Useless

"Read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. Our civilization is suffering profound...

Episode 342: Kool Keith & Fran Lebowitz

"You workin' hard lady? I don't believe you." - Kool Keith"Are you an original? I don't believe you." - MeLINKS:Kool Keith's "Matthew": https://koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/matthewListen to "I Don't Believe You" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4Y16Hb6RMBuy The Fran Lebowitz Reader here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/99063/the-fran-lebowitz-reader-by-fran-lebowitz/Head to my shop and...

Episode 341: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (Yes, again)

"You should know this: that feed is your poem.” - Anne Boyer"You should know this: that thing you casually do is probably not your art. But it actually might be your art. Totally depends on the person." - MeLINKS:Buy Garments...

Episode 340: The School of Life Dictionary - Ugliness

"Beauty is as rare as mass murder." - The School of Life Dictionary "I need better bras, but refuse to wear good bras anymore." - MeLINKS:Buy the new Dave Eggers book The Every here: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-every?taxon_id=1 or here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-every-by-dave-eggersBuy The School...

Episode 339: Keaton Patti - I Forced a Bot to Write This Book

"She had no horses but thought she did." -Keaton Patti's Bot"Garlic powder is prob the most important thing to me." - Yours TrulyLINKS:Buy "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book" here: https://linktr.ee/IForcedABotMy Website: https://www.robynoneil.comMy Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten...

Episode 338: Etel Adnan - The Arab Apocalypse

"The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself." - Etel Adnan"The books I'm reading about demons are making me nervous." - (Catholic) MeLINKS:Buy The 2 volume Etel Adnan reader here: https://nightboat.org/book/to-look-at-the-sea-is-to-become-what-one-is/Support me and my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopCheck...

Episode 337: Marie Howe - What the Living Do

“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.” - Marie Howe“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is...

Episode 336: Songs from the Quechua - Translated by Mark Strand

"I am raising a fly with wings of gold" - Songs from the Quechua"I want to be on The Young and the Restless." - MeLINKS:Buy "Looking for Poetry, Translations by Mark Strand: here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375709883?aff=penguinrandomCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my...

Episode 335: Reader's Digest & Spike Carlsen

"Garbage collectors pick up 6,424 pounds of your trash a year." - Spike Carlsen "Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain." - Robert Gary LeeLINKS:Buy Spike Carlsen's "A Walk Around the Block" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-walk-around-the-block-spike-carlsen?variant=33021712793634Check out Reader's Digest here: https://www.rd.comIf you're...