Date: 1998
"Rose Garmony woke at six-thirty, and even before her eyes were open the names of her three children were on her mind, on her mind's tongue: Leonora, John, Candy."
preview | full record— McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)
Date: 1998
"Though he sounded it guiltily on his inner ear, he would not let the word reach his lips."
preview | full record— McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)
Date: 1999
"It occurred to me that there was not much difference between a real thing that existed in memory, and something that was born in the mind from the start."
preview | full record— Budnitz, Judy (b. 1973)
Date: 2001
"in you the in moon / its rays entwined in my mind's / hair hangs down right in"
preview | full record— Hollo, Anselm (b. 1934)
Date: 2001
"When Austerlitz had brought the tea tray in and was holding slices of white bread on a toasting fork in front of the blue gas flames, I said something about the incomprehensibility of mirror images, to which he replied that he often sat in this room after nightfall, staring at the apparently mot...
preview | full record— Sebald, W. G. (1944-2001)
Date: 2001
"The Swiss boy with the apple on his head appeared in my mind's eye, Vera continued."
preview | full record— Sebald, W. G. (1944-2001)
Date: 2001
"I can just see them in my mind's eye, said Marie, a set of very corpulent men disregarding their doctors' advice and giving themselves up to the pleasures of the table, which even at a spa were lavish at the time, in order to suppress, by dint of their increasing girth, the anxiety for the secur...
preview | full record— Sebald, W. G. (1944-2001)
Date: 2002
A landscape may poise like "A postcard in front of us / As though we'd settled it there, just so, / Halfway between the mind's eye and the mind, just halfway."
preview | full record— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)
Date: 2002
"And anyway, whether mad or miserable, how can one write when tiredness is like a gloved hand gripping one's brain and squeezing?"
preview | full record— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)
Date: August 12/19, 2002
"In his mind's eye he can see himself coolly flipping the garlic and pepper T-bones on the front acreage of his new grill while carefully testing the citrus-tarragon trout filets that sizzle fragrantly in the rear."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)