CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

MARCH 2003

 

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 246

 

 

TRACK 1

 

THE BALL  (a poem)  by Wislawa Szymborska, The New Yorker, January 13, 2003

A LOST ELOQUENCE  by Carol Muske-Dukes, The New York Times, December 29, 2002

THE ARCTIC HEDONIST  by Philonoë, The American Scholar, Winter 2003

GOING POSTAL  by Mary Roach, Smithsonian, February 2003

 

TRACK 2

 

HIS HAND COULD CATCH YOUR ESSENCE IN FLIGHT  by Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times,            January 26, 2003

JUST MONEY  by Lisa Belkin, The New York Times Magazine, December 8, 2002

 

TRACK 3

 

MY FATHER ADDRESSES ME ON THE FACTS OF OLD AGE (fiction)  by Grace Paley, The New Yorker,               June 17 & 24, 2002

MILESTONES  by Paul Gray, Time, February 3, 2003

THUS SPAKE HENRY  by Russell Baker, The New York Review of Books, January 16, 2003

 

TRACK 4

 

FOR THE IRISH, LONG-WINDEDNESS SERVES AS A LITERARY VIRTUE  by Maeve Binchy, The New York     Times, November 4, 2002

HIS MOTHER'S VOICE (an essay)  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, from his book "The Rural Life," 2003

BLINDNESS AND INSIGHT  by Georgina Kleege, Raritan, Fall 2002

 

TRACK 5

 

SIX POEMS BY BILLY COLLINS, as broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio, November 30, 2002

IN PRAISE OF AMATEURS  by Freeman J. Dyson, The New York Review of Books, December 5, 2002

WONDERS OF THE WORLD  by Francine Prose, The Atlantic Monthly, December 2002

 

TRACK 6

 

INTO THE WOODS  by James Gorman, The New York Times, September 24, 2002

BEETLES (a poem)  by Steve Kowit, from his book "The Dumbbell Nebula," 2000

DOGOLOGY (fiction)  by T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, November 11, 2002

 

TRACK 7

 

DOGOLOGY (fiction)  by T. Coraghessan Boyle (concluded)

NEW ZEALAND  by Kenneth Warner, National Geographic, October 2002

 

TRACK 8

 

RETOOLING MACHINE AND MAN FOR NEXT BIG CHESS FACEOFF  by Paul Hoffman, The New York Times,  January 21, 2003

WHAT WILL BECOME OF AFRICA'S AIDS ORPHANS?  by Melissa Fay Greene, The New York Times Magazine,  The New York Times Magazine, December 22, 2002