CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING

 

NOVEMBER 2007

 

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 274

 

 

TRACK 1

 

FAMILY DINNER  by Gary Shteyngart, David Sedaris & Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, September 3 & 10, 2007

PASTA (a poem)  by Ed Ochester, Ploughshares, Winter 2006-2007

HIS KIND OF TOWN  by Alex Witchel, The New York Times Magazine, August 19, 2007

THE DAY LOUIS ARMSTRONG MADE NOISE  by David Margolick, The New York Times, September 23, 2007                                   

                                                                                   

TRACK 2

 

A BOX OF WORMS  by Lawrence Downes, The New York Times, September 7, 2007

ITCH, SCRATCH (a poem)  by Mary Jo Firth Gillett, The Southern Review, Autumn 2005

STUNG  by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, August 6, 2007

THE LIMEROOM (fiction)  by John Burnside, Granta, Winter 2006

           

TRACK 3

 

THE LIMEROOM (concluded)                                                       

 

TRACK 4

 

TENOR OF THE TIMES  by David Hajdu, The New York Times, September 8, 2007  

GOODBYE, GEORGE AND JOHN  David Brooks, The New York Times, August 7, 2007

ESCAPE TO MOUNT KENYA  by Matthew Power, National Geographic Adventure, September 2007

                                                                                                                 

TRACK 5

 

THE CHILEAN GIRLS (fiction)  by Marion Vargas Llosa, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2007 

A LIFE IN THE WORLD  by Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, September 2007

 

TRACK 6

 

PARROT POWER  by George Johnson, The New York Times, September 16, 2007                                  

IDENTITY’S EDGE  by Andrea Jones, Orion, January/February 2007

GROWING BODY PARTS  by Michael Rosenwald, Esquire, October 2007

BEDSIDE MANNERS  by Abraham Verghese, Texas Monthly, February 2007

                                                                       

TRACK 7

 

MISSISSIPPI STORIES (an essay)  by Joe Wilkins, The Missouri Review, Summer 2007

 

TRACK 8

 

DEAR BILLY (a poem)  by Nick Bozanic, Raritan, Spring 2007           

RUNNING AFTER MY FATHER  by Floyd Skloot, Witness, Winter 2005

GRACE PALEY, WRITER AND ACTIVIST, DIES AT 84  by Margalit Fox, The New York Times, August 24, 2007

GOING WITH THE GRAIN  by Lauren Wilcox, Smithsonian, September 2007