CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

MAY 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 253

 

 

TRACK 1

 

THE MOOR (fiction)  by Russell Banks.  As broadcast on Chicago Public Radio, December 29, 2003

THE BLUE WOODS (a poem)  by Brendan Galvin, The Georgia Review, Spring 2001

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR KANGAROO by Margaret Livesey, The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler, March 7, 2004

THE CRUELEST JOURNEY by Dean King, National Geographic Adventure, February 2004

 

TRACK 2

 

THE CRUELEST JOURNEY by Dean King (concluded)

AT A SHRINE OF AMERICAN DOCUMENTS:  PATHOS, POETRY AND BLACKMUN'S 'ROSEBUD' by Linda Greenhouse,

The New York Times, March 7, 2004

 

TRACK 3

 

HISTORY (fiction)  by Nadine Gordimer, Harper's, February 2004

AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL FRAYN  by Shusha Guppy, The Paris Review, Winter 2003-2004

 

TRACK 4

 

GREETINGS FROM THE ISLAND OF STABILITY  by Oliver Sacks, The New York Times, February 8, 2004

TONGUE-TIED BY PHYSICS:  THE INEFFABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING  by George Johnson, The New York Times, October 12, 2003

DARWIN'S WORMS  by Amy Stewart, The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2004

A LITTLE GIRL TUGS AT THE TABLECLOTH (a poem)  by Wislawa Szymborska, The New Yorker, March 8, 2004

TURN SIGNALS  by Louise Erdrich, The New Yorker, December 22 & 29, 2003

 

TRACK 5

 

SKUNK THAW  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, March 9, 2004

WHAT KIND OF FURNITURE WOULD JESUS PICK? (fiction)  by Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, August 18 & 25, 2003

 

TRACK 6

 

JAR OF PENS (a poem)  by Robert Pinsky, The Atlantic Monthly, June 2002

SAY NO MORE  by Jack Hitt, The New York Times Magazine, February 29, 2004

THE LIVING DEAD  by David Sedaris, The New Yorker, February 16 & 23, 2004

 

TRACK 7

 

COMING HOME  by Sara Corbett, The New York Times Magazine, February 15, 2004

 

TRACK 8

 

"AND HERE SHE IS...YOUR BETTY CROCKER!"  by Laura Shapiro, The American Scholar, Spring 2004

ALISTAIR COOKE SAYS FAREWELL FROM AMERICA  by Frank J. Prial, The New York Times, March 8, 2004