Date: 2001
"Same even with those cherished early memories: we call up a sketch, fill in the blanks, and store it again, changed."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: August 1, 2009
"There is nothing like a good storm for washing away mental debris, and I let it."
preview | full record— Klinkenbourg, Verlyn (b. 1952)
Date: August 3, 2009
"And I say, then your mind starts running, if you have a kaleidoscope mind like I do."
preview | full record— Weiner, Michael [Michael Savage] (b. 1942)
Date: May 17, 2010
"But Ashbery often writes from the position of the slackened mind, billowing with whatever passes through it; Armantrout generally writes in tautened distress, even when she's being funny."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: November 14, 2010
"When we evolved the capacity to be disgusted by moral failures, we didn’t evolve a new brain region to handle it. Instead, the insula expanded its portfolio."
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: November 14, 2010
"What are the consequences of the fact that evolution is a tinkerer and not an inventor, and has duct-taped metaphors and symbols to whichever pre-existing brain areas provided the closest fit?"
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: December 13, 2010
"Hospital vigils take place in slow-time, during which the mind floats free, like a frail balloon drifting into the sky."
preview | full record— Oates, Joyce Carol (b. 1938)
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: June 1, 2010
"Anyone who's closely read Mr. Hitchens's work -- including his best-selling manifesto 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' (2007) -- or seen him do battle on cable news programs, knows that he has a mind like a Swiss Army knife, ready to carve up or unbolt an opponent's arguments ...
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: June 1, 2010
"His mental Swiss Army knife also contains, happily, a corkscrew."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)