Date: 2011
"He felt ash filling up his chest and throat from the inside, blocking his mouth and thickening his heart and filling up his head, he hoped, blocking it out like the heavy gray ceiling of winter settling in over the plains, so that he would not be able to see into it."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"There will be such an awful beauty in your heart. A wound like a seal upon it."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: May 6, 2012
"But the psychological cloud can remain for a while, like a miasma."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: February 4, 2012
"That sounds like stop-and-go mindfulness--focusing on the lives of other creatures to dispel the usual mind theaters that plague us."
preview | full record— Ackerman, Diane (b. 1948)
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: May 20, 2013
"As this book began to veer astray, I felt that Lindemann's mind was like a sleek yacht built for exhilarating grace and speed but commandeered by moldy tyrants for mundane use as a sluggish freighter."
preview | full record— Paglia, Camille (b. 1947)
Date: August 3, 2013
"The imagination is a double-edged sword."
preview | full record— Luhrman, T. M. (b. 1959)
Date: May 30, 2013
"And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go."
preview | full record— Winfrey, Oprah (b. January 29, 1954)
Date: 2014
"If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw--your memory, vessel of your feelings."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)