ME READING STUFF

ME READING STUFF is a literature podcast with the looseness of a private audio letter. Robin O'Neill reads to the audience, recommends what she is reading, and follows whatever emotional weather has gathered around the microphone that day. The show moves through poems, prose, diaries, notebooks, public-domain finds, tributes, and literary names such as Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, David Markson, Anne Boyer, Vasko Popa, Patricia Highsmith, Mark Strand, and Vladimir Nabokov. It is not criticism. The governing spirit is appreciation, a kind of grown-up show and tell where the text is offered without a courtroom around it. That warmth does not make the show tidy. It can be excitable, gloomy, funny, self-correcting, and suddenly serene. Robin may begin with a rainy Washington State day, a train outside, a bad laptop, a stye, an office pile, or a theory that life is largely the management of disappointment. Then the reading arrives. The personal material is not filler so much as the listening condition: the mind, body, room, and week that carried the chosen words to the table. Recurring episodes circle self-forgiveness, fatigue, anxiety, health, aging, artistic pressure, inbox order, and the strange dignity of continuing after a rough stretch. The pacing can feel improvised because it often values presence over polish. That is part of the charm. ME READING STUFF suits listeners who want literature close to the skin, not sealed behind academic glass. It also suits people who find comfort in a voice that can celebrate writers and admit, in the same breath, that the day has been annoying. The result is a show about reading as companionship, survival practice, and affectionate attention.