Date: July 23, 2012
"I'm O.K., you tell them, but with each passing week the depression deepens. You try to describe it. Like someone flew a plane into your soul. Like someone flew two planes into your soul."
preview | full record— Díaz, Junot (b. 1968)
Date: 2012
"Once, borracho, at breakfast, / he said: The heart can only be broken / / once, like a window."
preview | full record— Corral, Eduardo C.
Date: 2012
"Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I -- / I've got a war in my mind"
preview | full record— Lana Del Rey [Elizabeth Woolridge Grant] (b. June 21, 1985)
Date: July 10, 2012
"What do you think my brain is made for / Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter."
preview | full record— Frank Ocean [Christopher Edwin Breaux] (b. October 28, 1987)
Date: 2012
"Serpents in my mind / Looking for your crimes."
preview | full record— Sharon Van Etten (b. February 26, 1981)
Date: December 3, 2013
"But mostly she set her intention and made a solemn promise to herself that, if she felt the surge of negative energy crawling up her body like a thousand ants, she would hold her tongue. At times it felt like a Herculean effort, as if her body was going to volcanically explode unless she allowed...
preview | full record— Paul, Sheryl
Date: March 9, 2013
"Their noses and ears full of tufts of hair, their brains crackling with mental electricity, their flappy trousers hoiked biffin-tight, and their little odd socks showing, they reassured the hoi polloi that, although they were very clever, and we needed and valued them as a society, these people ...
preview | full record— Lee, Stewart (b. 1968)
Date: April 9, 2013
"As I scan the statements of my memory bank for early deposits (it'd be a kid's memory bank account at a neurological NatWest where you're encouraged to become a greedy little capitalist with an escalating family of porcelain pigs), I see her in her hairy helmet, condescending on Nationwide, evis...
preview | full record— Brand, Russell (b. 1975)
Date: April 9, 2013
"Perhaps my early apathy and indifference are a result of what Thatcher deliberately engendered, the idea that 'there is no such thing as society', that we are alone on our journey through life, solitary atoms of consciousness."
preview | full record— Brand, Russell (b. 1975)
Date: April 12, 2013
"This insight implied that the brain is a creativity machine, which obtains incomplete information from the outside world and completes it."
preview | full record— Kandel, Eric R. (b. 1929)
