Date: February 26, 2019
"'The Source of Self-Regard' is a book of essays, lectures and meditations, a reminder that the old music is still the best, that in this time of tumult and sadness and continuous war, where tawdry words are blasted about like junk food, and the nation staggers from one crisis to the next, led by...
preview | full record— McBride, James (b. September 11, 1957)
Date: February 26, 2019
"But the real magic is witnessing her mind and imagination at work. They are as fertile and supple as jazz."
preview | full record— McBride, James (b. September 11, 1957)
Date: August 19, 2019
"The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen on difficult days. Never mind the affront to latter-day educated tastes of a painting style so sugary that it imperils your mind's incisors; there's a more burning issue."
preview | full record— Schjedahl, Peter (b. March 20, 1942)
Date: September 2; September 6, 2019
"I began to recoil from guitar riffs in favor of guitarscapes, from twangs in favor of horns, from back beat in favor of space, and, in large part, from the effluent of my own mind and problems, in favor of trying to interpret the poetry of others."
preview | full record— Pop, Iggy [James Newell Osterberg, Jr.] (b. April 21, 1947)
Date: October 2, 2019
"In the ravings of Trump's Ukrainian call, we saw undeniable proof that Infowars has invaded the president's brain."
preview | full record— Manjoo, Farhad (b. August 19, 1978)
Date: 2019
"When I try to drown my thoughts in gin / I find my worst ideas know how to swim."
preview | full record— Berman, David (1967-2019)
Date: December, 2019
"He was never really in the same lane as them. He was always this guy walking in a green pasture. They were on a highway in Los Angeles or Seattle, and he was in a green pasture in his mind."
preview | full record— Williams, Pharrell (b. April 5, 1973)
Date: January 29, 2020
"I would argue that his [Donald Trump's] mind, while a lot of things, including a landfill for the rancid refuse of pure appetite, is not exactly intricate."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: May 28, 2023
"This is an acid bath for human cognition"
preview | full record— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)
Date: May 28, 2023
"It's like we have an internal whiteboard in our minds ... If I'm working on one task, I have all the info I need on that mental whiteboard. Then I switch to email. I have to mentally erase that whiteboard and write all the information I need to do email."
preview | full record— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)