CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

SEPTEMBER 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 249

 

 

TRACK 1

 

LOST CAREERS!  by Eavan Boland, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, Esta Spalding, Semi Chellas, Hugh Brody          and Russell Banks, Brick, Summer 2003

ROMANCE  by Roger Angell, The New Yorker, May 26, 2003

HEPBURN:  AN INESTIMABLE SELF  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, July 1, 2003

THE AMERICAN AS NOBLE MAN (an essay)  by Richard Corliss, Time, June 26, 2003

 

TRACK 2

 

RIDING THROUGH TIME  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Gourmet, May 2003

THE RED BUTTERFLY  by John Berger, Brick, Summer 2003

THE SILENCE OF THE PAST GIVES WAY, AND DEAD WRITERS SPEAK ONCE MORE  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, July 5, 2003

FOR SALE:  SHORT STORIES FOR THE LONG RIDE HOME  by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times,               June 10, 2003

BROTH OF HEAVEN (fiction)  by Lan Samantha Chang, Ploughshares, Spring 2000

 

TRACK 3

 

IN THE FACE OF DEATH  by Alex Kotlowitz, The New York Times Magazine, July 6, 2003

 

TRACK 4

 

WHITE KNUCKLES, WHITE WATER  by Barbara Lazear Ascher, The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler,   June 15, 2003

LISTENING (a poem)  by Robert King, Poetry, July 1998

WILLOWSPOUT (a poem)  by R.T. Smith, Poetry, May 2001

THE SONG OF THE EXHAUSTED WELL  by Floyd Skloot, Boulevard, Spring 2003

 

TRACK 5

 

UNDERWATER  by Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, July 7, 2003

A GREAT MUSIC  by James Wood, The New Yorker, May 26, 2003

 

TRACK 6

 

PRIMAVERA (a poem)  by James Magorian, The Antioch Review, Spring 2003

DEATH IN NAPLES (fiction)  by Mary Gordon, Salmagundi, Winter/Spring 2003

 

TRACK 7

 

FUN WITH PHYSICS  by K.C. Cole, The New Yorker, June 2, 2003

STRUNG OUT  by Woody Allen, The New Yorker, July 28, 2003

THE LURE OF THE CHLORINE  by W.D. Wetherell, The New York Times, July 6, 2003

TAKE A WHIFF  by Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated, July 7, 2003

 

TRACK 8

 

DID WE SEE THE REAL WAR?  by Amanda Griscom, Rolling Stone, June 12, 2003

TRIUMPH AT HEART'S CONTENT  by Jean Strouse, The New York Review of Books, June 12, 2003