CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

SEPTEMBER 2002

 

CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING, 85 CHANNEL DRIVE, PORT WASHINGTON, NY  11050.  UNABRIDGED SELECTIONS FROM OUTSTANDING PERIODICALS, SOLELY FOR THE USE OF THOSE PREVENTED FROM READING BY VISUAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY.  CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING PRESENTS A WIDE RANGE OF SIGNIFICANT WRITING WITHOUT NECESSARILY ENDORSING THE VIEWPOINTS EXPRESSED.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 243

 

 

TRACK 1

 

HELP ME FIND MY SPACEMAN LOVER (fiction)  by Robert Olen Butler, The Paris Review #140, 1996

LE BLIND DATE CONQUERS PARIS  by Josh Levine, The New York Times, July 16, 2002

A WEEK BEFORE THE MAST  by Tony Horwitz, The New Yorker, July 22, 2002

 

TRACK 2

 

A WEEK BEFORE THE MAST  by Tony Horwitz (concluded)

A SITE FOR LOVE AND MURDER  by Edna Buchanan, The New York Times, July 16, 2002

 

TRACK 3

 

DO FINGERPRINTS LIE?  by Michael Specter, The New Yorker, May 27, 2002

CHARLIE'S GHOST  by Bill Keller, The New York Times, June 29, 2002

 

TRACK 4

 

EATING MY WORDS (a poem)  by Diane Lockward, The North American Review, March-April 2002

THE ART OF TRANSLATION:  AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM WEAVER  by Willard Spiegelman, The Paris Review, Spring 2002

 

TRACK 5

 

MY FAULT  by Walter Kirn, The New York Times Magazine, July 21, 2002

UNBREAKABLE:  HE'S STILL READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP  by Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, May 12, 2002

THE DEBACLE  by Francine du Plessix Gray, The American Scholar, Summer 2002

 

TRACK 6

 

THE PERFECTIONIST AT THE PLATE  by David Halberstam, The New York Times, July 9, 2002

DOES THE UNIVERSE EXIST IF WE'RE NOT LOOKING?  by Tim Folger, Discover, June 2002

UPENDING THE EXPECTATIONS OF SCIENCE  by Daniel E. Lieberman, The New York Times, July 14, 2002

GOT SILK  by Lawrence Osborne, The New York Times Magazine, June 16, 2002

 

TRACK 7

 

TOWARD HALLOWE'EN (a poem)  by Robert Farnsworth, American Poetry Review, November-December 1989

ALONG THE FRONTAGE ROAD (fiction)  by Michael Chabon, The New Yorker, November 19, 2002

A MEASURE OF ACCEPTANCE (an essay)  by Floyd Skloot, Creative Nonfiction #19, 2002

 

TRACK 8

 

GRIZZLY'S LAST STAND  by Rick Bass, Time, July 8, 2002

BEN & JERRY & ME  by Abby Ellin, The New York Times, July 24, 2002

DEATH AND TAXES 2010  by Calvin Trillin, The Nation, July 15, 2002

X-PRIZE  by David E. Fisher and Marshall Jon Fisher, Discover, July 2002