"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

"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 and BEST MAID!

"In the end I would rather wonder than know." -Mary Ruefle

LINKS:

Follow me on Substack: https://robynoneil.substack.com/

Buy "Madness, Rack, and Honey"

"Red" read by Mary Ruefle herself! 

Buy "I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare"

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!

Buy John D'Agata's "The Making of the American Essay" HERE.

Learn more about John D'Agata.

Read from A New History of the Essay.

Listen to Michael Silverblatt's interview with D'Agata on Bookworm.

"'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…….
DO IT RIGHT

THE FUCK

NOW.

...while yo body is still witchu….

cause the rest of us would tell you this gettin old shit is

FO THE BIRDS!

That shit DO NOT not let off...

Once it’s on yo ass, 

THAT’S IT!!!" - Katt Williams 

LINKS:

Buy "The Lost Writings" by Franz Kafka (From New Directions aka Nude Erections)

Enjoy Your Youth by Katt Williams (a clip)

French Fry Hustlin' by Katt Williams

The Henry Miller Memorial Library

XOXO, RO

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, Robyn

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: John Green's new(ish) book of essays, Sap Moss, Dr. Jackie from Married to Medicine, The Virgin Spring, Leaving Las Vegas, The Elephant Man, and Au Hazard Balthazar.

So good to talk with you guys again.

Much love and apologies forever,
Robyn

"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

With love, Robyn

LINKS:

The De Palma trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97XoMjwoZ5w

Indiebound 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

THE ROBYN'S GATE PODCAST on PATREON!