CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

JANUARY 2005

 

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 257

 

 

TRACK 1

 

BACK TO THE BLAST  by James Balog, National Geographic Adventure, December 2004/January 2005

SERVANT, BIRTHRIGHT (a poem)  by Pattiann Rogers, Poetry, January 2004

KANSAS (fiction)  by Marilynne Robinson, The New Yorker, September 13, 2004

 

TRACK 2

 

KANSAS (concluded)  by Marilynne Robinson (concluded)

 

TRACK 3

 

PARIS: 1946  by Paula Fox, The Paris Review, Summer 2004

THE HANDBAG STUDIO  by Thomas Keneally, Granta, Summer 2004

 

TRACK 4

 

POKER, A LOVE STORY  by John Updike, Life, November 5, 2004

THE FLU HUNTERS  by Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times Magazine, November 7, 2004

 

TRACK 5

 

ON GEORGE S. KAUFMAN  by Woody Allen, The New York Times Book Review, October 24, 2004

THE ART OF MEASURING UP  by Ivan Amato, Fortune, November 15, 2004

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (fiction)  by Alice Hoffman, The Missouri Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2003

 

TRACK 6

 

WHAT LIES BENEATH  by Dan Hofstadter, Smithsonian, November 2004

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (a poem)  by Czeslaw Milosz, The New Yorker, May 17, 2004

THIS ISLAND EARTH  by Diane Ackerman, Creative Nonfiction, No. 23, 2004

SOMETHING'S OFF  by Robin Marantz Henig, The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004

CHILI CHEESE DOGS, MY FATHER AND ME  by Pat Conroy, Newsday, November 14, 2004

 

TRACK 7

 

ZOOTOPIA  by David Quammen, National Geographic Adventure, November 2004

TAKING THE VEIL  by Jane Kramer, The New Yorker, November 22, 2004

 

TRACK 8

 

TAKING THE VEIL  by Jane Kramer (concluded)