Date: March 10, 2011
"Richards’s sharpness is surprising coming from a guy whose mind, everyone had to assume, was by now a salvage heap."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: October 7, 2011
"In the wayward note, the bumps and curves of the author's mind seem to be laid plain on the paper."
preview | full record— Horowitz, Alexandra
Date: March 11, 2011
"The huge submerged bulk of the mental iceberg, with its stores of memory and acquired skills that have become automatic, like language, driving and etiquette, supplies people with the raw materials on which they can exercise their reason and decide what to think and what to do."
preview | full record— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: March 9, 2012
"If we acquire a bad habit this way it is very hard to change, because its grooves are so well worn in our minds."
preview | full record— Wilson, Timothy D.
Date: March 19, 2015
"When students are tackling a task like that, you can feel the whirr and hum of thought: it feels woven of reciprocity, willing, ambition, the impulse to translate fugitive thoughts into communication with others."
preview | full record— Warner, Marina (b. 1946)
Date: June 2, 2015
"Padding for the mental life, so to speak."
preview | full record— Parker, James
Date: December 4, 2017
"Dreams can be potent sources of signs and symbols, but just as often they're detritus from the landfills of our minds."
preview | full record— Pitzer, Andrea
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
Date: February 21, 2019
"She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia