CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING
SEPTEMBER 2004
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 255
TRACK 1
UNRIDDLING
by Melissa Haley. The American Scholar, Summer 2004
THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
by Tim Flannery, The
New York
Review of Books,
June 10, 2004
TRACK 2
THE FARMHOUSE WIFE
(fiction) by Adrianne Harun, The Ontario Review,
Spring/Summer 2004
TRACK 3
THE BEAR
(an essay) by Kristin Bair, The Gettysburg Review, Summer
2004
CON GAMES
by Michael Bamberger, Sports Illustrated,
May 31, 2004
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
by Bruce Weber, The New York Times Magazines,
May 9, 2004
THE GENIUS OF BROTHER RAY
(an essay)
by Christopher John Farley, Time,
June 21, 2004
TRACK 4
THE CHINESE CENTURY
by Ted C. Fishman, The New York Times Magazine,
July 4, 2004
TRACK 5
AN INTERVIEW WITH MAURICE
SENDAK
by Bill Moyers, as broadcast on PBS,
March 12, 2004
OUR CAT GOES TO HEAVEN
by Margaret Atwood, Brick, Summer 2004
THE COUNTY FAIR: LIFE, DEATH
AND REALLY GOOD PIE
by Andy Newman, The New York Times,
July 16, 2004
TRACK 6
INTO THE AMAZON
by Scott Wallace, National Geographic, August 2003
HAWKING CRIES UNCLE
by Michael D. Lemonick, Time,
August 2, 2004
GATE
C22
(a poem) by Ellen Bass, The Missouri Review, Vol. XXV, No.
1, 2002
CALLING VICHET
(fiction) by Sharon May Brown, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Spring/Summer 2003
TRACK 7
BLOWN AWAY
by Tim Cahill, National Geographic Adventure, May 2004
EVERYBODY TAKE A SEAT
by Mariana Gosnell, Smithsonian, July 2004
MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS
by Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated,
June 28, 2004
DREAM STREET:
W. EUGENE SMITH'S
PITTSBURGH
PHOTOGRAPHS (a poem)
by Robert Gibb, The Southern
Review, Winter 2003
MY REPORT TO THE CARNEGIE
INSTITUTE
by Michael Chabon, Brick, Summer 2004
TRACK 8
IRAQ:
AMERICA'S
PRIVATE ARMIES
by Patrick Radden Keefe, The New York Review of Books,
August 12, 2004
HIS OWN
PRIVATE
KINGDOM
by Ian Frazier, Mother Jones, May/June 2004
THE MERCY
(a poem) by Philip Levine, The New Yorker,
August 17, 1998
ASPHALT JUNGLE
by Charles Simic, Boulevard, Spring 2004
HOSTAGE OF HIS OWN GENIUS
by Richard Schickel, Time,
July 12, 2004