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Date: October 7, 2011
"In the wayward note, the bumps and curves of the author's mind seem to be laid plain on the paper."
preview | full record— Horowitz, Alexandra
Date: February 3, 2012
"Confronted by a vertiginous cascade of allusions, each one pointing to yet another unknown, retreating to the snail shell of the mind seems a whole lot more attractive: a poem responds to you, you don't respond to it."
preview | full record— Samet, Elizabeth D.
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: March 19, 2015
"When students are tackling a task like that, you can feel the whirr and hum of thought: it feels woven of reciprocity, willing, ambition, the impulse to translate fugitive thoughts into communication with others."
preview | full record— Warner, Marina (b. 1946)
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: April 26, 2016
"It is by this dimension of imaginative relativity that Hogwarts, Middle Earth, Earthsea, Dickens's London, Hemingway's Paris, Didion's anxious California and the mind of Helen Oyeyemi, reclining like a sphinx between her pages in quiet and glittering sleep, all fit inside my tiny apartment, and ...
preview | full record— Brennan, Summer
Date: September 7, 2017
"Like one of Yayoi Kusama's 'Infinity Rooms,' my consciousness, and that of the women I knew, gained new dimensions."
preview | full record— Adams, Carol J. (b. 1951)
Date: December 4, 2017
"Dreams can be potent sources of signs and symbols, but just as often they're detritus from the landfills of our minds."
preview | full record— Pitzer, Andrea
Date: December 10, 2017
"Writing to Wilhelm Fleiss in 1896, Freud used the word Nachträglichkeit --'retranscription'--to describe the brain's action of calling up a memory and revising it in response to fresh circumstances."
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)
