Date: 2001
"But loss is a current: the coolness of one side of a wet finger held up, the faint hiss in your ears at midnight, water sliding over the dam at the back of your mind, memory unremembering itself."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time, and this is true from hour to hour as well as from era to era."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: Summer, 2004
"Because of the way we live, the basement of the American mind fills up with the sexual use of other people."
preview | full record— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)
Date: January 25, 2005
"I'm staring out into that vacuum again / From the back porch of my mind / The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2006
"Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Cormac (b. 1933)
Date: 2006
"The brain is a mind-boggling redesign. But it can't escape its past. [...] She pictured those mangled Kearney mansions, glorious old wooden Victorians enlarged with brick in the 1930s and again in the 1970s with pressboard and aluminum."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"Weber had told the story years ago, concluding with a few thoughts about the locked room of personal experience."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2007
"A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: May 10, 2009
"Rather than storehouses of in-depth information, the web is turning our brains into indexes."
preview | full record— Suderman, Peter
Date: August 6, 2009
"But they [lies] do not prevent us from seeking the truth, from looking outside our mental prisons and trying to uncover the true nature of the world that surrounds us."
preview | full record— Morris, Errol (b. 1948)