Date: 2006
"This subsystem still chattered; this one had fallen silent."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2007
"I have a brain full of remembered names but the road is often blocked with rubble."
preview | full record— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)
Date: 2007
"[M]y brain ... did most of what I wanted it to do, but it had sand traps that I learned to avoid."
preview | full record— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)
Date: 2007
"I knew I could no longer rely on the 'sticking plaster' of memory"
preview | full record— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)
Date: March, 2007
"We don't have a 'scissors in the mind' that can trim away dissonance at will, in an effort to isolate our knowledge in actu from uncomfortable aspects of our knowledge of the world."
preview | full record— Habermas, Jürgen (b. 1929)
Date: March, 2007
"This fiction [of the self] gets replaced with the image of a consciousness that hangs like a marionette from an inscrutable crisscross of strings."
preview | full record— Habermas, Jürgen (b. 1929)
Date: 2007
"When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird, / Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse, / All your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse, / Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt, / Better find yourself a place to level out."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2009
"He turned and lay down on his front alongside her, head resting on his arms, their elbows touching, and once again she could hear the sound of his thoughts."
preview | full record— Nicholls, David (b. 1966)
Date: 2009
"Forced to raise her voice, Emma could hear it echoing in her head as she spoke with great passion and force about her new career."
preview | full record— Nicholls, David (b. 1966)