Date: February 4, 2012
"That sounds like stop-and-go mindfulness--focusing on the lives of other creatures to dispel the usual mind theaters that plague us."
preview | full record— Ackerman, Diane (b. 1948)
Date: May 20, 2013
"As this book began to veer astray, I felt that Lindemann's mind was like a sleek yacht built for exhilarating grace and speed but commandeered by moldy tyrants for mundane use as a sluggish freighter."
preview | full record— Paglia, Camille (b. 1947)
Date: August 3, 2013
"The imagination is a double-edged sword."
preview | full record— Luhrman, T. M. (b. 1959)
Date: May 30, 2013
"And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go."
preview | full record— Winfrey, Oprah (b. January 29, 1954)
Date: September 12, 2014
"He explains that there are two warring parts of the brain: a hot part demanding immediate gratification (the limbic system), and a cool, goal-oriented part (the prefrontal cortex)."
preview | full record— Druckerman, Pamela (b. 1970)
Date: February 9, 2015
"Now I know for sure that the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone."
preview | full record— Alexander, Elizabeth (b. 1962)
Date: April 16, 2015
"And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice."
preview | full record— Mann, Sally (b. 1951)
Date: June 6, 2015
"I eventually wiped away my rotted thought, which suited my face as poorly as bad lighting, and we resumed our session."
preview | full record— Filipacchi, Amanda (b. October 10, 1967)
Date: September 22, 2015
"This is not to say that "Tender Torrent" wasn't "fun" (it seems to be out of print today, the most enduring form of censorship); but for me, its greatest entertainment value lay in returning it to its owner, aware of the lewd visions that seethed beneath her sunny exterior. And really, that perc...
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: April 29, 2024
"Merleau-Ponty is a deep influence; one can feel him tumbling around in the back seat of much of Butler’s thinking."
preview | full record— Parul Sehgal (b.1981)