Date: December 30, 2015
"I had always considered my thoughts as something abstract, but they weren't; they were as material as the heart beating in my chest. The same was true of the mind, the soul, the personality; all of it was fixed in the cells and originated as a result of the various ways in which these cells reac...
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: December 30, 2015
"That is the wolf. The awkward, twisted or stupid part of the soul, the grudges and the envy, the hopelessness and the darkness, the childish joy and the unmanageable desire."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: December 30, 2015
"The wolf is the part of human nature that the systems have no room for, the aspect of reality that our ideas, the firmament that the brain vaults above our lives, cannot fathom. The wolf is the truth."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: December 30, 2015
"Still harder was grasping that within that room, there was an opening into yet another room, the human brain."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: July 1, 2015
"Poetry was an attempt to dig into the buried stuff inside a person’s psyche."
preview | full record— Zhang, Jenny
Date: Jun 29, 2015
"In some ways, it's like peeking into the black box of our mind, seeing the puzzle pieces that put our regular perception together."
preview | full record— Weiner, Sophie
Date: May 18, 2015
"'I have to be totally still.' Ideas come floating up 'like a bubble in liquid.' At that point, he goes into an excitable motor state, pacing or scribbling down ideas."
preview | full record— Colapinto, John (b. 1958)
Date: August 17, 2015
"'When kids are hearing stories, they're imagining in their mind's eye when they hear the story,' said Dr. Hutton."
preview | full record— Klass, Perri
Date: January 3, 2016
"It is popular among these people who apparently have brains wired like short-wave radios broadcasting from upper Michigan to say that the real constitutional authority in this country resides in its local sheriffs."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: January 14, 2016
"Then there's the risible campaign commercial in which the Tailgunner dresses up in camo and face paint and hangs out in the blind with the Duck Dynasty crew, looking like a G.I. Joe who's lost his kung-fu grip on his senses."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)