CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

JULY 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 260

 

 

TRACK 1

 

THE WOODPECKER PECKS, BUT THE HOLE DOES NOT APPEAR (a poem)  by Charles Wright, The New Yorker, January 10, 2005

THE WOODPECKER IN ALL OF US  by Jonathan Rosen, The New York Times, May 3, 2005

CAPTURING THE UNICORN  by Richard Preston, The New Yorker, April 11, 2005

HEARING AID  by Owen Edwards, Smithsonian, April 2005

 

TRACK 2

 

AIN’T IT JUST GRAND?  by Kevin Fedarko, Outside, June 2005

SOUTHERN FOOD by Michael Griffith and Yusef Komunyakaa, The Oxford American, Spring 2005

 

TRACK 3

 

A CEDAR IN PARIS (a poem)  by William Wenthe, Shenandoah, Spring/Summer 2005

THE GROTTO (fiction)  by Robert Olen Butler, Ploughshares, Spring 2004

THE MASTER BUILDER  by Eugenia Zukerman, The New York Times Book Review, April 24, 2005

 

TRACK 4

 

IT’S A FLAT WORLD, AFTER ALL  by Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2005

WHAT DO ANIMALS THINK?  by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Discover, May 2005

 

TRACK 5

 

THE BIG ROUNDUP  by Ted Gioia, The American Scholar, Spring 2005

PETE SEEGER IS 86  by Studs Terkel, The Nation, May 16, 2005

NO, YOU CAN’T JUST DODDER  by Henry Fountain, The New York Times, May 15, 2005

MY NEW LIFE (a poem)  by Molly Tenenbaum, New England Review, Winter 2003

NORWEGIAN WOOD  by Margit Bisztray, Gourmet, August 2004

 

TRACK 6

 

HOW THINGS WORK  by Witold Rybczynski, The New York Review of Books, June 9, 2005

M.I.T. NERDS  by Claudia Glenn Dowling, Discover, June 2005

 

TRACK 7

 

FEELING ENTITLED?  by Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic Monthly, March 2005

NATIONAL TREASURE  by Joshua Micah Marshall, The New Yorker, May 23, 2005

WHAT’S THE FRENCH FOR ‘JUICED’?  by Mark Lamster, The New York Times Book Review, April 10, 2005

LOVE OF COUNTRY  by Norman Lear, Time, April 25, 2005

COUNTDOWN  by Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, April 18, 2005

 

TRACK 8

 

THE ATATÜRK OF THE OUTER BOROUGHS (fiction)  by Jacob M. Appel, Raritan, Winter 2005

DESIGNING THE FUTURE  by Anne Underwood, Newsweek, May 16, 2005