Date: February 21, 2019
"It was a place where she knew what was going to happen, a place where she would always choose the right side, where the failure was in history and not in herself, where she did not read the wrong writers, was not seized with surges of enthusiasm for the wrong leaders, did not eat the wrong anima...
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"Still, she stood there, and locked them in her mind for an hour."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 24, 2019
"If I watched long enough, I felt lightly hypnotized, as if one of those disembodied hands had reached in and massaged my brain."
preview | full record— Matchar, Emily (b. 1982)
Date: February 24, 2019
"It was 2016 when I discovered Oddly Satisfying, and I needed a little brain massage."
preview | full record— Matchar, Emily (b. 1982)
Date: February 5, 2019
"I’m just trying to understand the squirrels running around in Trump’s brain case."
preview | full record— Cole, Juan (b. October 23, 1952)
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: 2019
"What can I say / That you won't engrave / On your heart?"
preview | full record— Jennifer and Jessica Clavin [Bleached]
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)