Date: 1975
"His soul, like his stomach, was in turmoil."
preview | full record— Lodge, David (b. 1935)
Date: 1984
"In his mind's eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1992
"Indigestion tablets, thought Victor, belching softly, to help break down the doughy bulk of sensation?"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"No doubt suicide would turn out to be the violent preface to yet another span of nauseating consciousness, of diminishing spirals and tightening nooses, and memories like shrapnel tearing all day long through his flesh."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1997
"Is it something in this Wilderness, something ancient, that waited for them, and infected their Souls when they came?"
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 1997
"They were possessing her in ways more intimate than had ever been allow'd him...interfering at orders of minitude invisible to the human Eye, infiltrated without need of light or Map, commanding the further branches of whatever flows in a Soul like blood,...she and her Captors whispering togethe...
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 1998
"Every second of playing time involved writing out, note by note, the parts of up two dozen instruments, playing them back, making adjustments to the score, playing again, rewriting, then sitting in silence, listening to the inner ear synthesize and orchestrate the vertical array of scribbles and...
preview | full record— McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)
Date: 1998
"Rose Garmony woke at six-thirty, and even before her eyes were open the names of her three children were on her mind, on her mind's tongue: Leonora, John, Candy."
preview | full record— McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)
Date: 1998
"Though he sounded it guiltily on his inner ear, he would not let the word reach his lips."
preview | full record— McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)
Date: 2001
"When Austerlitz had brought the tea tray in and was holding slices of white bread on a toasting fork in front of the blue gas flames, I said something about the incomprehensibility of mirror images, to which he replied that he often sat in this room after nightfall, staring at the apparently mot...
preview | full record— Sebald, W. G. (1944-2001)