CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

SEPTEMBER 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 261

 

 

TRACK 1

 

THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE  by Bruce Selcraig, Smithsonian, July 2005

LIQUID ASSETS  by Steven Shapin, The New Yorker, August 1, 2005

 

 

TRACK 2

 

PLANET OF THE RETIRED APES  by Charles Siebert, The New York Times Magazine, July 24, 2005

VINDICATION FOR IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER AND ITS FANS  by James Gorman and Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times, August 2, 2005

 

 

TRACK 3

 

SUMMER VISITORS  by Anne Beattie, The American Scholar, Summer 2005

MIKE (fiction)  by Wendell Berry, The Sewanee Review, Winter 2005

 

 

TRACK 4

 

A WOMAN WHO FOUND A WAY TO WRITE  by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, July 24, 2005

WORDS (a poem)  by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, The New Yorker, February 10, 2003

A LESSON IN THE ART OF STORYTELLING:  AN INTERVIEW WITH ALISTAIR MACLEOD by William Baer, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2005

 

 

TRACK 5

 

WORLD’S UNLIKELIEST BESTSELLER  by Bruce Watson, Smithsonian, August 2005

THE POWER TO DIVIDE  by Rick Weiss, National Geographic, July 2005

A CONVERSATION WITH PAUL FARMER  by Claudia Dreifus, The New York Times, July 5, 2005

 

 

TRACK 6

 

MAKING A SPLASH ON MARS  by Charles W. Petit, National Geographic, July 2005

MUDLAVIA (fiction)  by Elizabeth Stuckey-French, The Atlantic, September 2003

 

 

TRACK 7

 

MUDLAVIA (fiction)  by Elizabeth Stuckey-French (concluded)

SIX TOXIC TALES  by Cathy Newman, National Geographic, May 2005

 

 

TRACK 8

 

PLACES:  A MEMOIR OF ROBERT PENN WARREN  by Rosanna Warren, The Southern Review, Spring 2005

A TRAIN RUNS THROUGH IT  by Tom Huth, The Condé Nast Traveler, June 2005