Date: February 20, 2000
"I sometimes fancy that various archetypal situations circled tirelessly in Hitchcock's mind, like whales in a tank at the zoo."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: 2001
"The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time, and this is true from hour to hour as well as from era to era."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: December 30, 2015
"All those rooms were gathered in my own brain, which looked exactly like Hasanaj’s, a wet, gleaming, walnutlike lump, composed of 100 billion brain cells so tiny and so myriad they could only be compared to the stars of a galaxy."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: February 18, 2017
"So we're stuck in Trump's head with him. ... It's a very cluttered place to be, a fine-tuned machine spewing a torrent of chaos, cruelty, confusion, farce and transfixing craziness."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: June 30, 2017
"Or consider living with an unending library of easily recalled memories. It would be overwhelming: Dates, names, phone numbers -- they would all be constantly top of mind."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: October 23, 2017
"Evans said that, after the incident, 'I just put it in a part of my brain and closed the door.'"
preview | full record— Farrow, Ronan (b. 1987)
Date: October 10, 2017
"The words are arbitrary but the thoughts are not. Their meaning is laid up in the vaults of the mind."
preview | full record— Ground, Ian
Date: April 18, 2018
"And indeed the tape--infamous and not proved to exist--has not just provided joke fodder for Twitter and talk-show hosts but has come to occupy a crawl space in our collective imagination, filled with bits and bobs plucked from a variety of sources: pulpy airport Russian-spy novels from the late...
preview | full record— Fry, Naomi