Date: June 27, 2015
"Descartes thought that the brain was a kind of hydraulic pump, propelling the spirits of the nervous system through the body."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: November 28, 2015
"It's as if our brain has become a full cup of water and anything more poured into it starts to spill out."
preview | full record— Schwartz, Tony
Date: May 18, 2015
"'I have to be totally still.' Ideas come floating up 'like a bubble in liquid.' At that point, he goes into an excitable motor state, pacing or scribbling down ideas."
preview | full record— Colapinto, John (b. 1958)
Date: May 28, 2016
"It occurred to me that of all mind-boiling aspects of the current presidential race, the worst part was arguing with people whom I considered friends."
preview | full record— Flores, Jake
Date: July 27, 2016
"But, gradually, I found myself caught up in the flow of the thing, gliding in my mind around every bend in the river, riding a raft with someone who knows where all the snags and sunken rocks of public life are."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: August 20, 2017
""Twin Peaks: The Return" works much differently, in that we occasionally get scenes or even entire hours that draw us far away from the straight, well-defined narrative path ... until we're floating around, dangerously unmoored, in David Lynch's subconscious."
preview | full record— Murray, Noel
Date: October 137, 2017
"But, because political campaigns occasionally can be wonderful bathyspheres to your soul’s dark abyss, we are learning that Moore’s is plenty deep and plenty dark."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: June 16, 2018
"Throughout that summer and into the fall, floating in a pool of cheap beer, just below the surface of my semiconsciousness, was the constant thought: Maybe I won't wake up this time."
preview | full record— Powers, Kevin (b. 1980)
Date: February 25, 2019
"Because his brain is like a constantly running toilet, flushing unadulterated effluent through the Twitter pipes, like when he said "I built a lot of wall. I have a lot of money and I built a lot of wall," when not one inch, not one millimeter, of his new wall has been constructed; or his tweet:...
preview | full record— Burke, Tom
Date: September 2; September 6, 2019
"I began to recoil from guitar riffs in favor of guitarscapes, from twangs in favor of horns, from back beat in favor of space, and, in large part, from the effluent of my own mind and problems, in favor of trying to interpret the poetry of others."
preview | full record— Pop, Iggy [James Newell Osterberg, Jr.] (b. April 21, 1947)