Date: March, 2014
"Memory, / a jar of flies. Spin off the lid."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: June 18, 2015
"This was not an unthinkable act. A man may have had a rat's nest for a mind, but it was well thought out. It was a cool, considered crime, as well planned as any bank robbery or any computer fraud."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: 2016
"You were one of them, / weren't you, with death / itching in the brain like a cloud of midges?"
preview | full record— Guest, Paul
Date: January 17, 2017
"The new mind, which the body floods with adrenaline, begins -- like a rabbit in a forest of foxes -- to decode all the signals, even if it's not capable of fitting them into any narrative."
preview | full record— Hemon, Aleksandr (b. 1964)
Date: May 15, 2017
"We've got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: April 28, 2018
"Some magazine stories are fishhooks; they work their way into your mind and don't come out."
preview | full record— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)
Date: June 4 and 11, 2018
"'His brain works at the speed of a hummingbird,' Kasky said."
preview | full record— Kasky, Cameron (b. 2000)
Date: February 5, 2019
"I’m just trying to understand the squirrels running around in Trump’s brain case."
preview | full record— Cole, Juan (b. October 23, 1952)