CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING
 
MARCH 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 258
 
 
TRACK 1
 
LUNCH AT THE BILTMORE  by Oscar Hijuelos, The New Yorker, January 17, 2005
THE BIG BANDS:  LIBERAL, KANSAS, SUMMER OF 1955 (a poem)  by B.H. Fairchild The Southern Review, Winter 1999
RETURN OF A VIRTUOSO  by Marya Hornbacher, Smithsonian, January 2005
 
TRACK 2
 
THE VANISHING  by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, January 3, 2005
A ROMANCE OF RUST  by Donovan Hohn, Harper's, January 2005
 
TRACK 3
 
A ROMANCE OF RUST  by Donovan Hohn (con cluded)
 
TRACK 4
 
THE DRESSMAKER'S CHILD (fiction)  by William Trevor, The New Yorker, October 4, 2004
WEST MEETS EAST  by Pankaj Mishra, Travel & Leisure, December 2004
 
TRACK 5
 
THEN  by Claire Messud, The Kenyon Review, Fall 2004
LIVING MEMORY  by Christopher Clausen, The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2004
MONOLOGUE OF A DOG ENSNARED IN HISTORY (a poem)  by Wislawa Szymborska, The New Yorker, October 25, 2004
 
TRACK 6
 
I'LL NEVER STOP SAYING MARIA  by Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, December 13, 2004
1992 HOUSE   by Billy Frolick, The New Yorker, January 17, 2005
HOUNDING THE WIFE FOR A DOG by Dave Barry, Newsday, December 20, 2004
INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH (fiction)  by Ron Carlson, Harper's, December 2004
 
TRACK 7
 
INVENTING SHERLOCK HOLMES  by Michael Chabon, The New York Review of Books, February 10, 2005
CLOSER  by Gary Gildner, The New York Times Magazine, January 23, 2005
DIFFERENT BUT (PROBABLY) EQUAL  by Olivia Judson, The New York Times, January 23, 2005
CLONE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY  by David Quammen, Harper's, February 2005
 
TRACK 8
 
CLONE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY  by David Quammen (concluded)
EVEN EINSTEIN HAD HIS OFF DAYS  by Simon Singh, The New York Times, January 2, 2005