Date: February 1, 2016
"Sharing videos, binge-watching Netflix, the resultant neuro-pudding at the end of an epic gaming marathon, the perverse seduction of recording and devouring our most ordinary human thoughts on Facebook and Instagram -- Wallace somehow knew all this was coming, and (as the man himself might have ...
preview | full record— Bissell, Tom (b. 1974)
Date: February 1, 2016
"Which is to say that a novel is perishable only by virtue of being stored in such a leaky cask: our heads."
preview | full record— Bissell, Tom (b. 1974)
Date: February 1, 2016
"I read for hours that way, morning after morning, my mind awhirl."
preview | full record— Bissell, Tom (b. 1974)
Date: February 9, 2016
"There is something deeply disturbing in his [Ted Cruz's] disassociation, a lack of empathy which suggests a barren inner landscape."
preview | full record— Patterson, Richard North (b. 1947)
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: March 31, 2016
"My mind is cloudy on these points."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: May 28, 2016
"It occurred to me that of all mind-boiling aspects of the current presidential race, the worst part was arguing with people whom I considered friends."
preview | full record— Flores, Jake
Date: May 28, 2016
"The human brain is a pattern-matching machine."
preview | full record— Vanderbilt, Tom (b. 1968)
Date: June 5, 2016
"They [brain and heart] talk like best friends via the common carotid artery, which sends blood from the heart to the brain at a running speed of three feet per second."
preview | full record— Hill, Melissa
Date: June 5, 2016
"Professor Sunstein's talk turned out to be a success, and his wife was on board when he decided to give book-length treatment to the ideas rattling around in his brain."
preview | full record— Rosman, Katherine