Date: July 9 & 16, 2018
"I was really determined: like this is a poison in my mind--lust--and seeing people as 'What could that person be to me?'"
preview | full record— Moshfegh, Ottessa (b. May 20, 1981)
Date: Dec. 15, 2018
"They found that the most disrupted genes were those for growth factors, proteins that act like a kind of brain fertilizer"
preview | full record— Friedman, Richard A.
Date: Dec. 15, 2018
"'And that is in fact devastating because brain remodeling is something we need to do all the time — we are constantly rewiring our brains based on past experience and the expectation of how we need to use them in the future,' Dr. Akil said."
preview | full record— Friedman, Richard A.
Date: 2018
"This isn't my way to cope / Washing my mind out with soap."
preview | full record— Karly-Marina Loaiza [Kali Uchis] (b. July 17, 1994)
Date: 2018
"I'm doing fine / Trying to derail my one track mind."
preview | full record— Dacus, Lucy (b. May 2, 1995)
Date: January 8, 2019
"When they discover the anti-Semitism of Wharton or Dostoyevsky, the racism of Walt Whitman or Joseph Conrad, the sexism of Ernest Hemingway or Richard Wright, the class snobbery of E. M. Forster or Virginia Woolf, not all of them express their repugnance as dramatically as the student I talked t...
preview | full record— Morton, Brian (b. July 8, 1955)
Date: February 16, 2019
"He says he became practiced at leading victims gently back to their traumas, so they could use their minds as cameras to bring key moments to life, letting their faces and voices tell the stories."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 21, 2019
"A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"I cared about the feeling that my thoughts were being dictated. I cared about the collective head, which seemed to be running a fever. But if we managed to escape, to break out of the great skull and into the fresh air, if Twitter was shut down for crimes against humanity, what would we be losing?"
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia