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: 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: 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)
Date: April 12, 2013
"All of which goes to show that the real 'eye' of the beholder is the brain itself."
preview | full record— Kandel, Eric R. (b. 1929)
Date: April 15, 2013
"Big data is like the offensive coordinator up in the booth at a football game who, with altitude, can see patterns others miss. But the head coach and players still need to be on the field of subjectivity."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: April 23, 2013
"Maybe I’ve been in school too long; doctoral study has a way of turning your head into a never-ending seminar, and I’m now capable of having complicated, inconclusive thoughts about nearly any subject."
preview | full record— Rothman, Joshua