ME READING STUFF

Episodes

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  Episode 418: Summer Break, Continued Delusions, and a Poem by Joshua Garvelink 21.07.2026 44m

  "He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby"I'm ready to take over the airwaves." ~Me, The Great Delusion LINKS+Josh Garvelink's SUBSTACK and INSTAGRAM+My SHOP+My WEBSITE+My INSTAGRAM+My SUBSTACKThank you to anyone reading this. I so appreciate you. And I hope you're having a great day with good food that isn't hurting your stomach.
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  Episode 417: C.K. Williams & Definitions of "Quiet" 13.07.2026 56m

  Thanking Mediocre Nurses, A Play by Robyn O'NeilACT 1: Transparency about a failing enterprise ACT 2: Two questions and an answerACT 3: Keep Dying, Keep Writing it DownACT 4: Get QuietLINKS+Buy C.K. Williams' Writers Writing Dying+Buy The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus+My SHOP+My WEBSITE+My INSTAGRAM+My SUBSTACK
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  Episode 416: ❣️This Podcast's 20th Anne Carson Episode❣️ 06.07.2026 30m

  “We are amazing beings. We are neighbors of fire.” - Anne CarsonContinuing to reread from some of ME READING STUFF's top rated books/writers, we celebrate living legend Anne Carson and Autobiography of Red, yet again. This is the 20th episode dedicated to Anne Carson, and it certainly won't be the last. Other topics include: hot dogs, stuffers, vacuuming, and my "nine months in Colombia".With love, RobynLINKS+Buy Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson+Watch Anne Carson's "Lecture on the History of Skywriting"+My SHOP+My WEBSITE+My INSTAGRAM+My SUBSTACK
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  Episode 415: 🏀Celebrating the Poetry of Sportstalk with Fan Favorite: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion!🎾 29.06.2026 46m

  This week, we return to everyone's favorite poetry book, Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker. In Metta World Peace's poem, he discusses the difference between elbow and shell pasta.Anna Kournikova's poem talks about how many boyfriends she’s gonna kiss. And we end with an impromptu reading of the lyrics of superstar and friend to the show Cécile McLorin Salvant ❤️Sending you all love this week!RobynLINKSBuy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of SportstalkMy SHOPMy WEBSITEMy INSTAGRAMMy SUBSTACK
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  Episode 414: 🎙️The 11th Anniversary Special: The Poem That Started It All – "The Man on the Dump" 23.06.2026 46m

  🎙️ The 11th Anniversary of ME READING STUFF 🎂Dear listener, Well, we've officially been kicking it for ELEVEN YEARS. Through vasectomies, divorce, mystery illnesses, breakdowns, fevers, estrangement, Covid, moves, near-death experiences, remarriage, Las Vegas hotel rooms, heart surgeries, parenthood, hauntings, and meetings with the ©️Kleenex company. Think of how much water we've drunk since 2015. I wonder how many books we threw across the room? Who remembers when Channing Tatum wrote us erotic poetry? And what the hell was "Robyn's Gate"? To celebrate this anniversary, I’m reading you the very same poem I read in the very first episode — Wallace Stevens’ “The Man on the Dump.” I also respond to your questions in "Answer Corner."Whether you’ve been listening since 2015 or this is your first time — I’m really glad you’re here. And honestly? I'm really glad I'm still here, too.Let's keep doing this. I'll see you next time. You doing more than enough. (But maybe make a dentist appointment. And organize your nightstand. And drink more water.)With so much love and appreciation, RobynLINKS:Buy The Collected Poems of Wallace StevensMy WEBSITEMy INSTAGRAMMy SHOPMy Substack
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  Episode 413: Dionne Brand – "Islands Vanish" from Nomenclature 22.06.2026 45m

  This week marks the return to THROWING BOOKS ACROSS THE ROOM!!!! So exciting. Dionne Brand's "Islands Vanish" really had me feeling all sorts of things. It was a pleasure to read it to you.  I extend appreciation to her for "hunting for slave castles with a pencil for explosives." Not many hunt so rigorously. It's shattering. This episode also includes an impassioned Recommendation Corner, a Mini Question Corner, and I talk about a steakhouse for an awfully long time. I did it all for the caperberries. Thank you, as always, for listening.xoxo, RobynLINKSBuy Dionne Brand's NOMENCLATURECheck out my YoutubeMy InstagramMy SubstackMy WebsiteMy ShopThe Finch AppRituals Incense Better Booch
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  Episode 412: 📚Wendell Berry, Building Altars & Exhaustion 15.06.2026 29m

  This week, I read to you from a 1992 poetry anthology called The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman and Michael Meade. Wendell Berry's poem "Ripening" leads to a discussion about death and altar-building. I also kick a few people out of the podcast 😲, and bemoan my exhaustion levels. Thank you for listening - I love you guys❣️LINKS:Buy The Rag and Bone Shop of the HeartCheck out my new Website!Follow me on Instagram!
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  Episode 411: Taschen's The Book of Symbols: The Color Gray 06.06.2026 43m

  "I know how furiously your heart is beating." ~Wallace Stevens, The Gray Room"The tense American nerve relaxed. I lived with a gray quietness that let the mind grow inward like a root." ~Paul EngleLINKS:Taschen's The Book of Symbols My WebsiteMy ShopMy SubstackMy Instagram 
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  Episode 410: Charles Simic & Anne Carson – A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925-2025) 20.05.2026 26m

  On today's episode, I read from a MASSIVE birthday gift, A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925 – 2025), Edited by Kevin Young. The readings are: Charles Simic's "This Morning"Anne Carson's "Epithalamium NYC"LINKSBuy A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker MY NEW WEBSITE Check out my friend Jack's website!My Instagram My Substack“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.” ~Charles Simic 
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  Episode 409: Andy Warhol - "Atmosphere" from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol 08.05.2026 46m

  "I love to walk but I can'tI love to swim but I can'tI love to sit in the sun but I can't I love to smell the flowers but I can'tI love to play tennis but I can'tI love to water-ski but I can't"~Andy Warhol"Lime flavored sparkling waters taste like Fruity Pebbles." ~MeLINKS:Buy The Philosophy of Andy WarholCheck out my InstagramCheck out my SubstackCheck out my Website (FINALLY updating MAY 15TH!)I love you guys! Thanks for listening. xoxo, Robyn
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  Episode 408: Mason Currey – Daily Rituals: Women at Work (Octavia Butler & Martha Graham) 30.04.2026 34m

  "I enjoy people best if I can be alone much of the time." – Octavia Butler"Talk is a privilege and one must deny oneself that privilege." – Martha Graham"I love saying "refrigerator."" – MeLINKSPick up Mason Currey's Daily Ritual BooksFollow Mason Currey's SubstackFollow me on InstagramBuy my book 20 YEARS OF DRAWINGSFollow Anne J. Regan on InstagramThe BIG Eastfork Mug I bought myself.
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  Episode 407: Laurie Anderson - O Superman 21.04.2026 27m

  "Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them." ~Laurie Anderson"Do you clean yourself well?" ~MeLINKS:Listen/Watch Laurie Anderson's O SupermanMy new Substack PostMy newsletter signup at the bottom of MY WEBSITE.My FIRST COMIC!My INSTAGRAMThe trailer for Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine.
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  Episode 406: Mystery Poem Found in a Library Book 30.03.2026 35m

  Today's anonymous poem was found in my library book about Medieval Art and was dated Feb 7, 1958! How exciting is that?!? I also answer some listener questions & ask you some of my own in everyone's favorite segment - Question Corner. I wish you well, I hope you can gain acceptance of disappointment, and we shall find peace.With love, Robby LINKS:My InstagramMy Youtube 
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  Episode 405: Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg 18.03.2026 25m

  Today, I explain how I use my fists to understand the days in a month. I regret (again) not learning Greek or its myths. We read Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg. We celebrate taking walks, aggressively. And something about Doritos. LINKS:Buy The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem HERE.Buy Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass HERE.Check out BLURRING BOOKS! Watch the Walt Whitman scene in Now, Voyager HERE.
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  Episode 404: A Michael Silverblatt Tribute & a David Markson Reading 11.03.2026 32m

  "I am one who does not think that the Earth was made for us. I think that we are first to last strangers on it, and that it takes us a good first half of our lives just to get used to gravity. That it's not easy." -Michael Silverblatt LINKS:Visit the Bookworm ARCHIVES.Buy David Markson books on INDIEBOUND.Watch Michael Silverblatt at Cornell HERE. Listen to David Markson on Bookworm. 
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  Episode 403: Anne Boyer & Floor Piles 03.03.2026 38m

  "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 and loved and had those who loved me and often felt alone. My body was sometimes well, then sometimes unwell. I got nearer to death, as did you." -Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women"I think mostly about my health, food, the past, and sweatpants. Although I complain often and suffer from depression, my general demeanor is actually quite positive. I wish I liked hot tea and stillness more than I do." -Me LINKS:Buy Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women Me on InstagramMe on Substack
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  Episode 402: The Public Domain Review & The Bold and the Beautiful 21.02.2026 41m

  "Twisting it in the right hand - I love another." via The Public Domain Review"Donna Logan felt badly for her younger sister, Katie, ,who was suffering from acne."  via The Bold and the Beautiful: 10th Anniversary CelebrationLINKSVisit The Public Domain ReviewWatch The Bold and the Beautiful My InstagramMy SubstackJoin Grig's Poetry PartyListen/Watch to Anne Carson's Lecture on Corners.
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  Episode 401: An After Dark Special! Vasko Popa for Valentine's Day 14.02.2026 45m

  Tonight, we have a Recommendation Corner (it's been a while!), a return to Vasko Popa, praise for Valentine's Day whether you like it or not, and some new sound clips 🖤And I'll miss you forever, Billy. I'm devestated.Love, Robynp.s. can you believe I'm back for a 3rd week in a row? I can't!LINKSBuy Vasko Popa's Complete WorksMy InstagramMy Substack My Website
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  Episode 400: Geri Jewell - I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond 06.02.2026 25m

  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 "Cousin Geri", Blair Warner's comedian cousin with cerebral palsy from The Facts of Life. I have adored her from the first moment I saw her on TV, and recently read her 2011 autobiography I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond. In this episode, I read to you a small excerpt from a story she wrote involving a nun, some urine, and a car wash. ENJOY!  xoxo, RobynLINKS:Buy Geri Jewell's book I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond!See Geri on Sesame Street HERE and HERE (with an appearance by Northern Calloway, who I told you about on THIS episode of ME READING STUFF). (and there are many more if you just search Youtube)Geri's character dancing on Deadwood.Geri Jewell's website.Me on SubstackMe on Instagram www.robynoneil.com
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  Episode 399: The World Book Encyclopedia - The Letter "A" 30.01.2026 32m

  Today, we head back to Encyclopedia Corner, exploring the letter "A". Also discussed: The Prinzhorn Collection, Jean Dubuffet, Hypergraphia, Emma Hauck, Ants, Animals, The San Fernando Valley, Cardiology, and Cockroaches, Nudity, and Adoption. LINKS:My SubstackMy Instagram