Date: 2010
"Brain on fire, I then leadfooted it at once back to my mother's house."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"The Professor was my very own bespoke monstre sacrée for so long--so long the resident she-Minotaur in my private psychic labyrinth--that I developed, fairly early in the game, what might be called a Professorial shtick: a narrative, often comic, in which the more Grand Guignol asp...
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"Yet seared into my brain forever is one of her parting utterances: a cool assessment--delivered with ghoulish panache as she and my friend were about to leave--of the Professor in the sack."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"One bore the Professorial stigmata, if only brainular, for years."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"I still have my old paperback copy of Spenser's poem and just looking at it--the pages and pages of bewildering verse in tiny print, the demented little crib notes I've scribbled in the margins--can induce in me a sort of mental seasickness."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"After enough angst and pot and lack of sleep the poet's romance-world--so dense with weird archaisms and arcane symbols, bizarre characters, confusing plots and subplots--seemed more and more to allegorize the scary mental maze in which I found myself."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"But the squalor of it sank into my soul, adding not a little to the septic murk within."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Anyone who's closely read Mr. Hitchens's work -- including his best-selling manifesto 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' (2007) -- or seen him do battle on cable news programs, knows that he has a mind like a Swiss Army knife, ready to carve up or unbolt an opponent's arguments ...
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: June 1, 2010
"His mental Swiss Army knife also contains, happily, a corkscrew."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: March 29, 2010
"Drip, drip, drip — that’s what insomniac thoughts feel like, a leaky faucet behind the eyes."
preview | full record— Marino, Gordon
