Date: April 16, 2015
"And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice."
preview | full record— Mann, Sally (b. 1951)
Date: June 6, 2015
"I eventually wiped away my rotted thought, which suited my face as poorly as bad lighting, and we resumed our session."
preview | full record— Filipacchi, Amanda (b. October 10, 1967)
Date: September 22, 2015
"This is not to say that "Tender Torrent" wasn't "fun" (it seems to be out of print today, the most enduring form of censorship); but for me, its greatest entertainment value lay in returning it to its owner, aware of the lewd visions that seethed beneath her sunny exterior. And really, that perc...
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: September 22, 2015
"You can shun obscene books if you like, but you can't scrub erotic fantasies from the mind's hard drive."
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: 2015
"The memory branded itself on his brain: the gales of laughter, everyone offering him their cookies, the slave woman with her eyes on the floor."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"She knew Lee well, and by heading southeast, she had hidden in the folds of his own cerebral cortex."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"The mind of a child! Children have no hearts (cf. Peter Pan, another story Meg could reproduce fairly accurately), and their minds are rickety towers of surreal detritus."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"His thoughts on his back porch surrounded him like a carpet of mice, immobilizing him via his unwillingness to cause them pain. The mice of introspection were as effective as any buffalo herd."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"She regarded the token male Lee as a dull-witted, penile one-trick pony (to her, consistency was evidence of a mind standing erect), while women were polymath geniuses until proven otherwise."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: April 29, 2024
"Merleau-Ponty is a deep influence; one can feel him tumbling around in the back seat of much of Butler’s thinking."
preview | full record— Parul Sehgal (b.1981)