CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING
 
JULY 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 248
 
 
 TRACK 1
 
PARADISE (fiction)  by Garrison Keillor, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2001
THE READER (a poem)  by Richard Wilbur, The New Yorker, October 1, 2001
GROWING UP WITH THE WAR (a memoir)  by Samuel Hynes, New England Review, Winter 2003
 
TRACK 2
 
FINALLY, THE TOP OF THE WORLD  by Jan Morris, Smithsonian, May 2003
COMO CONVERSAZIONE:  CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS, The Paris Review, Winter 2002
 
TRACK 3
 
COMO CONVERSAZIONE:  CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS (concluded)
SUMMER OF THE HOT TUBS (fiction)  by Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, August 19 & 26, 2002
ODE TO HARDWARE STORES (a poem)  by Barbara Hamby, The Southern Review, Winter 2003
SAY FAREWELL TO PIN CURLS  by Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, May 19, 2003
 
TRACK 4
 
A CONVERSATION WITH JAMES D. WATSON  by John Rennie, Scientific American, April 2003
LONG SHOT  by Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, May 2003
 
TRACK 5
 
FOREVER AMBER  by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, April 14, 2003
HOW DOES A PIANO GET TO CARNEGIE HALL?  by James Barron, The New York Times, May 11, 2003
 
TRACK 6
 
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, May 18, 2003
NOBODIES  by John Bowe, The New Yorker, April 21 & 28, 2003
 
TRACK 7
 
THE INTUITIONIST  by E.L. Doctorow, The Nation, May 19, 2003
OUR FIRST WORDS, WRITTEN IN CLAY, IN AN ACCOUNTANT'S HAND  by Alberto Manguel, The New York Times, April 20, 2003
GLORY (a poem)  by Robert Pinsky, Poetry, March 2003
A GATHERING OF KITES (fiction)  by Phillip Parotti, The Sewanee Review, Fall 2002
 
TRACK 8
 
UNRECONSTRUCTED  by Barry Bearak, The New York Times Magazine, June 1, 2003