Date: 2015
"'Sorry to disappoint you, but me,' Byrdie said, raising his hand. 'I think I have whiplash of the brain.'"
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"'Yes, our brains are like Swiss cheese,' he added, sort of undermining his compliment after the fact."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: July 1, 2015
"Poetry was an attempt to dig into the buried stuff inside a person’s psyche."
preview | full record— Zhang, Jenny
Date: 2015 [debuted June 27, 2014, released as a single in February 19, 2015]
"And all those things I didn't say / Wrecking balls inside my brain."
preview | full record— Platten, Rachel (b. 1981)
Date: April 26, 2016
"It is by this dimension of imaginative relativity that Hogwarts, Middle Earth, Earthsea, Dickens's London, Hemingway's Paris, Didion's anxious California and the mind of Helen Oyeyemi, reclining like a sphinx between her pages in quiet and glittering sleep, all fit inside my tiny apartment, and ...
preview | full record— Brennan, Summer
Date: March 31, 2016
"My mind is cloudy on these points."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: June 5, 2016
"They [brain and heart] talk like best friends via the common carotid artery, which sends blood from the heart to the brain at a running speed of three feet per second."
preview | full record— Hill, Melissa
Date: June 5, 2016
"Professor Sunstein's talk turned out to be a success, and his wife was on board when he decided to give book-length treatment to the ideas rattling around in his brain."
preview | full record— Rosman, Katherine
Date: July 26, 2016
"But it is true that she told none of these types of personal anecdotes that help people watching at home form impressions from mental clay."
preview | full record— Haberman, Maggie (b. 1973)
Date: September 12, 2016
"'Ayahuasca takes you to the swampland of your soul,' my friend Tony, a photographer in his late fifties, told me."
preview | full record— Levy, Ariel (b. 1974)