Date: 2010
"The idea of sex with a woman, of 'having a lesbian lover,' was simply unthinkable, like living alone at the North Pole or deciding to become a lycanthrope. If the thought existed at all, it was a mote, a sweet nothing--a little 'feather on the breath of God,' barely sensed now and then, but most...
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: July 16, 2014
"During the six years I begged my husband to get me pregnant, I kept certain images locked away in a mental hope chest."
preview | full record— Rinaldi, Robin
Date: December 11, 2014
"Marginalia is a blow struck against the idea that reading is a one-way process, that readers simply open their minds and the great, unmediated thoughts of the author pour in."
preview | full record— Miller, Laura
Date: January 11, 2014
"'Think about a fish tank,' says Dr. Nedergaard. 'If you have a tank and no filter, the fish will eventually die. So, how do the brain cells get rid of their waste? Where is their filter?'"
preview | full record— Konnikova, Maria (b. 1984)
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 17, 2015
"In every moment, your brain consults its vast stores of knowledge and asks, 'The last time I was in a similar situation, what sensations did I encounter and how did I act?'"
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: July 1, 2015
"Poetry was an attempt to dig into the buried stuff inside a person’s psyche."
preview | full record— Zhang, Jenny
Date: Jun 29, 2015
"In some ways, it's like peeking into the black box of our mind, seeing the puzzle pieces that put our regular perception together."
preview | full record— Weiner, Sophie
Date: February 18, 2017
"So we're stuck in Trump's head with him. ... It's a very cluttered place to be, a fine-tuned machine spewing a torrent of chaos, cruelty, confusion, farce and transfixing craziness."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 18, 2017
"Then think of the president's skull, which is stuffed with other humours: insecurity, insincerity, victimhood, paranoia, mockery, self-delusion, suspicion, calculation, illogic, vindictiveness, risk, bullying, alimentiveness, approbativeness, vitativeness. Gall, divided into three parts."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)