CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

MARCH 2004

 

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 252

 

 

TRACK 1

 

THE BIG MELT  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, March 18, 2003

THE TEARS OF SQUONK, AND WHAT HAPPENED THEREAFTER (fiction)  by Glen David Gold, McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, 2002

 

TRACK 2

 

THE COMMISSIONER OF PAPER FOOTBALL  by Paul Zimmer, Shenandoah, Fall 2003

FLOWN AWAY, LEFT BEHIND  by Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, January 12, 2004

FIRST-YEAR TEACHER TO HIS STUDENTS (a poem)  by Gary J. Whitehead, Poetry, July 2002

THE SPINSTERS OF ELD  by Richard Selzer, Harper's, December 2003

 

TRACK 3

 

LIFEBOAT  by Elizabeth McCracken, The New York Times Magazine, December 28, 2003

GRAHAM GREENE'S VIETNAM  by Katie Roiphe, Tin House, Fall 2003

WAR CRIME AND PUNISHMENT  by Guy Lesser, Harper's, January 2004

 

TRACK 4

 

WAR CRIME AND PUNISHMENT  by Guy Lesser (concluded)

 

TRACK 5

 

A FOWL OBSESSION  by Mark Obmascik, Sports Illustrated, January 19, 2004

TUBA CITY (fiction)  by Joseph Kierland, Playboy, September 2003

 

TRACK 6

 

THE MOP-UP  by Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, January 12, 2004

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS  by Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, December 2003

 

TRACK 7

 

WELCOME TO NOWHERE  by Simon Winchester, National Geographic Adventure, February 2004

HE SPRINGS ETERNAL  by Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2003

THE LESSON (a poem)  by Philip Levine, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2003

 

TRACK 8

 

DEEP IN UNIVERSE'S SOFTWARE LURK BEAUTIFUL, MYSTERIOUS NUMBERS (an essay)

by George Johnson, The New York Times, May 20, 2003

THE ART OF DISASTER  by Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, December 4, 2003

THE LAIRS OF RUSSIAN LITERARY LIONS  by Roxanna Robinson, The New York Times, December 14, 2003