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Robyn O"Neil

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

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37:50

Episode 397: Nabokov, Merriam-Webster & Bad...

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2025/08/20

"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"I love ruled paper." - MeLINKS:Buy The Best American Essays of The CenturyBuy Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary BuilderLearn more about my drawing HELL See James Ensor in front of Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 as an old man.

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22:14

Episode 396: OUR 10th ANNIVERSARY EPISODE❣️ / C.K....

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2025/06/23

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, according to some! "Such fun to wake up though!Such fun too if you don't!" - C.K

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48:45

Episode 395: Lydia Davis - Priority (Again) & Answer...

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2025/01/17

"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." - MeLINKS: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 WebsiteMy Youtube

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36:17

Episode 394: The Life of Northern Calloway (David...

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2024/12/16

"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 CallowayMy SubstackDamien Jurado's record label - Maraqopa

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53:46

Episode 393: Joshua Rivkin - In the Black (on Cy...

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2024/12/03

Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy. Love, RobynLINKS: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 JohnsHenry Darger

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38:11

Episode 392: Steve Zirnkilton - In the Criminal...

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2024/11/20

"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-TLINKS:Get your drawing! Subscribe to my SubstackWatch the Driver 23 / Atlas Moth TrailerWatch the Fitzcarraldo TrailerThe NBC article on Steve Zirnkilton Listen to the Steve Zirnkilton Law & Order SVU IntroBuy Nedra Glover Tawwab's Set Boundaries, Find Peace book.Damien Jurado's The Loneliest Place and Male

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1:38

Episode 391: Sick Day

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2024/11/13

Dear Boss, I am sick.Love, Robyn

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Episode 390: Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy

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2024/11/05

A - ABLE-MINDEDB - BICUSPID C - CROSS-EXAMINATION K - Keeping You CompanyWith love, RobynLINKS: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 SubtackMY Shop

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19:08

Episode 389: Copy & Paste: The Cold Episode

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2024/10/30

LINKS:My SubstackBuy my book HERE.Watch American Movie HERE.

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31:22

Episode 388: Encyclopedia Corner - Lighting & Lightning

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2024/10/23

"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"LINKSMy SubstackSubterranean Thunder AKA Angela LaneMy WebsiteThe Lightning Field by Walter De Maria

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25:22

Episode 387: Letters of Note / E.B. White / My Voiceover

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2024/10/15

"I must decline, for secret reasons." ~E.B. WhiteLINKS:My SubstackSee Letters of Note on InstagramME READING STUFF shirts at the bottom of THIS page.California Scrub JayStellar's Jay

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Episode 386: Anne Carson - Short Talks

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2024/10/09

"A trotting animal can restore red hearts to red." - Anne Carson (Short Talk on My Task)LINKS:Buy Anne Carson's Short TalksListen 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!

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Episode 385: Mary Ruefle & John Clare

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2024/10/01

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

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Episode 384: John D'Agata & Studio Update

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2024/09/24

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

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31:34

Episode 383: Franz Kafka & Katt Williams

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2024/09/07

"'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 RIGHTTHE FUCKNOW....while yo body is still witchu….cause the rest of us would tell you

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23:36

Episode 382: Catullus 85

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2024/08/31

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

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Episode 381: Emily Dickinson, Petrichor & Me

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2024/08/24

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=9780316184151I 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-booksOther things: John Green's new(ish) book of essays, Sap Moss, Dr. Jackie from Married to Medicine, The

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Episode 380: "Part 1: Party" featuring words by...

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2024/07/27

"Go inside a stone.That would be my way.Let somebody else become a dove."-Charles SimicBuy 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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68:09

Episode 5: 🎁 Friday Night Giftisode 🌮

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2024/03/09

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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16:34

Episode 4: P.S. 1: How my dog Henry's DNA ended up...

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2024/01/27

THE ROBYN'S GATE PODCAST on PATREON!

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