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Date: 2014
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
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: September 22, 2015
"You can shun obscene books if you like, but you can't scrub erotic fantasies from the mind's hard drive."
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: 2015
"The memory branded itself on his brain: the gales of laughter, everyone offering him their cookies, the slave woman with her eyes on the floor."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"She knew Lee well, and by heading southeast, she had hidden in the folds of his own cerebral cortex."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"The mind of a child! Children have no hearts (cf. Peter Pan, another story Meg could reproduce fairly accurately), and their minds are rickety towers of surreal detritus."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
