Date: January 8, 2019
"When they discover the anti-Semitism of Wharton or Dostoyevsky, the racism of Walt Whitman or Joseph Conrad, the sexism of Ernest Hemingway or Richard Wright, the class snobbery of E. M. Forster or Virginia Woolf, not all of them express their repugnance as dramatically as the student I talked t...
preview | full record— Morton, Brian (b. July 8, 1955)
Date: January 26, 2019
"His mind is not what it was, and at its peak it was more of a Magic 8 Ball than a supercomputer."
preview | full record— Roth, David
Date: January 26, 2019
"It's because he's literally fucking being investigated for his relationship with Russia and because he very much wants people to think he's not, and because that's honestly the best he can do because his brain is an old donut bobbing around in a toilet."
preview | full record— Roth, David
Date: February 2, 2019
"Is this an O.K. time to let the kids play Fortnite until their brains melt into the back seat?"
preview | full record— Pamela, Paul
Date: February 2, 2019
"My mind had no choice but to drift into an elaborate fantasy realm."
preview | full record— Pamela, Paul
Date: February 2, 2019
"You let your mind wander and follow it where it goes."
preview | full record— Pamela, Paul
Date: February 11, 2019
"You can't take your eyes off his eyes--blue and unblinking, as he confronts the world like a camera with the shutter left open, permitting the images to burn into his brain."
preview | full record— Lane, Anthony (b. 1962)
Date: February 9, 2019
"It should be noted that this problem of split-screen consciousness is likely to get worse in the era of divided government, not better."
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer
Date: February 9, 2019
"Even if our government were a paradigm of functionality, we’d surely be fighting for custody of our brains."
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer
