Date: July 31, 2017
"Character is like concrete: You can make an impression when it's freshly poured, in its youth, one could say, but when it sets, it's impervious to alteration."
preview | full record— Blow, Charles (b. 1970)
Date: August 24, 2017
"Whatever we choose as option A, there is always a chorus, inside our own minds and outside of it, contending it would have been better if we had just gone with option B."
preview | full record— Filipovic, Jill (b. 1983)
Date: September/October, 2017
"Is 'American ideas' one of those phrases, like 'how women are' or 'the will of the West to survive' that are to thinking as huffing gasoline is to breathing?"
preview | full record— Purdy, Jedediah (b. 1974)
Date: September 11, 2017
"It was 'The Cantos of Ezra Pound' that showed Bidart what a poem could be: unlimited in scope, mind-blowing in its dance with the mind."
preview | full record— Als, Hilton (b. 1960)
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: October 137, 2017
"It is a premeditated catastrophe visited on people whom Paul Ryan believes in the darkness of his soul and in the shadows of his mind do not deserve the help of the government of which they are a part."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: October 23, 2017
"Evans said that, after the incident, 'I just put it in a part of my brain and closed the door.'"
preview | full record— Farrow, Ronan (b. 1987)
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)
Date: December 10, 2017
"As this can happen many times in a life, a memory might be described as having a kind of geological history, with different stratifications going back through time, 'representing the psychic achievement of successive epochs of life.'"
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)
Date: December 10, 2017
"To fill oneself with the consciousness of others, and then to forget deeply enough, and long enough, that the collective world can be welded to what is unique and original to oneself--this is as precise and moving a definition of creativity as I have come across."
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)